centavo

São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe

(historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).


Guinea-Bissau

→ Japanese: ギニアビサウ (Ginia-Bisau)

Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Republic of Guinea-Bissau#English

A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea-Bissau.


Selected by the European Union as the 3-digit number fastest to dial on cellular and rotary phones without the likelihood of accidental dialing caused by hanging up a landline telephone, sometimes interpreted by phone networks as a 1.

When you call 112 in the United Kingdom, the call is automatically rerouted to 999 operators.

The telephone number for emergency services on all GSM cell phones and in the EU, Russia, United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Ukraine, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome, the Seychelles, Uganda, East Timor, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, North Macedonia, Vatican City, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Saint Vincent.


Portuguese Guinea

(historical) A former colony of Portugal in West Africa, now called Guinea-Bissau.


Maio

One of the islands of the Bissagos Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau


119 handles fires and medical emergencies in Japan and Korea but the police have a separate number, 110.

The telephone number for ambulance services in Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea and on Taiwan.


Bolama

One of the islands of the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau

Capital of the homonymous region, also the most populated place in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau


Bubaque

The second most populated place in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau


Bissagos

A group of about 88 islands and islets located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the African nation of Guinea-Bissau.


Caravela

One of the 88 islands of the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau


Republic of Guinea-Bissau

the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (canonical)

Calque of Portuguese República da Guiné-Bissau


Guinea-Bissauan

Copious amounts of palm oil, tomatoes, chili, fish, and goat’s meat are considered traditional staples in Guinea-Bissauan cooking.

2009, Jamie Stokes, editor, Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, Facts On File, Inc., Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 270:

These events and the silences and taboos surrounding them helped create the conditions for the longevity of the ‘linha de Cabral’ or ‘Cabral’s programme’ as a key reference of the erstwhile liberation movement and Guinea-Bissauan politics in general until the late 1990s.

2012, Philip J. Havik, “Virtual Nations and Failed States: Making Sense of the Labyrinth”, in Eric Morier-Genoud, editor, Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, Leiden, S.H., Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 52:

Cabral and Pereira looked to unify both nations until Cabral’s prime minister, the former commander of the Guinea-Bissauan armed forces, João Bernardo Vieira, led a military coup against Cabral in 1980 on the grounds that Cabral’s Cape Verdean origins (like his brother, Amílcar, he was born in Bissau to Cape Verdean mixed-race parents) compromised his dedication to the Guinea-Bissauan people.

2021, Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. Silva, editors, Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence: Decolonial Destinies, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 22: