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Bijagós Islands
Sign in to saveAlso known as Bijagos Islands, Bissagos Islands, Bijouga Islands, Bissagos
archipelago in Guinea-Bissau
Key facts
- Official name
- Coastal and Marine Ecosystems of the Bijagós Archipelago – Omatí Minhô
- Type
- Natural
- Criteria
- ix, x
- Reference no
- 1431rev
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Has part
- Poilão
- Country
- Guinea-Bissau
- Located in
- Bolama region
- Area
- 2624
- Time zone
- UTC−01:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- Bissagos archipel-satellite.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bijagós Islands
- native label
- Bissagos Islands
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bijagós islands off the coast of Guinea-Bissau
Map of Guinea Bissau with the Bijagós Islands Ramsar Site Three men in Bubaque on a Mahindra tractor manufactured at the company's plant in Gambia. The Bijagós Islands (Portuguese: Arquipélago dos Bijagós), often misspelled Bijagos in English text and formerly known in English as Bissagots (often misspelled Bissagos), are a group of about 88 islands and islets located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Guinea-Bissau.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bijagós Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.