Busy market town, with a predominantly Muslim population.
12.2833-14.2167Cacheu was once an important place for slave-trading, and there is still a little fort.
12.2667-16.1667capital of the country until 1941, has some magnificent examples of colonial architecture and has been suggested as a world heritage site.
11.5833-15.4667Bafata is a pleasant town with an interesting colonial centre, located on the Rio Gêba. Hometown of Bissau-Guinean patriot Amilcar Cabral. Ask around near the old market to visit his house.
12.17194444-14.6575capital city of Guinea-Bissau
11.859167-15.595556archipelago in Guinea-Bissau
11.25-16.08333333port of Bissau
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Guinea (officially the Republic of Guinea; French: République de Guinée) is a former French colony that borders Guinea-Bissau and Senegal to the north, Mali on the north and north-east, Côte d'Ivoire to the east and Liberia and Sierra Leone to the south. Unrest in Sierra Leone has spilled across the border, creating humanitarian emergencies and threatening the stability of this country. The country is often sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea.
10-11Senegal is an officially Francophone country in Western Africa. With the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Senegal has Guinea-Bissau to the south, Guinea to the southeast, Mali to the east, and Mauritania to the north. The Gambia is almost an enclave of Senegal in the middle of the western coast.
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