Map of Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 12.0° N, 15.0° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Guinea and Senegal — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Guinea-Bissau is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Guinea-Bissau shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Guinea-Bissau covers about 36,125 km² (13,948 sq mi). That makes it the 135th-largest country in the world by area and the 42nd-largest in Africa, larger by area than 12 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,781,308, the 149th-largest in the world and the 46th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Guinea-Bissau has an average population density of about 49 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 46th by population and 42nd by area.

The seat of government is Bissau, and the official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr), and the main official languages are Portuguese and Upper Guinea Creole. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Guinea-Bissau carries the ISO country codes GW and GNB, dials on the international calling code +245 and uses the .gw internet domain.

Guinea-Bissau shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Senegal (capital Dakar, about 18,593,258 people) and Guinea (capital Conakry, about 14,363,931 people).

By area, Guinea-Bissau is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 12.0° N, 15.0° W and opens at zoom level 7, framing Guinea-Bissau within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Bissau. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Guinea-Bissau lies about 1,332 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Guinea-Bissau keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr).

The official languages are Portuguese and Upper Guinea Creole, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +245 and websites commonly use the .gw internet domain.

In short, Guinea-Bissau is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Bissau. Guinea-Bissau has a population of about 1,781,308 and covers around 36,125 km² (13,948 sq mi), ranking it 149th in the world by population and 135th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Guinea-Bissau.

The flag of Guinea-Bissau features a red vertical band on its hoist side that takes up about two-fifth the width of the field, and two equal horizontal bands of yellow and green adjoining the vertical band. A five-pointed black star is centered in the vertical band.

The flag of Guinea-Bissau is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.