Official Languages

Portuguese · Portuguese (Brazilian)

Languages spoken here

Kabuverdianu (secondary) · Portuguese (secondary) · Portuguese (Brazilian) (secondary) · Wolof (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

← Countries

Guinea-Bissau

Peoples

Largest first.

PeoplePopulationLanguageReligion
Balanta, Kentohe458000 BalantaEthnic Religions
Fuuta Torro396000 PulaarIslam
Crioulo, Upper Guinea308000 Guinea-Bissau CreoleChristianity
Mandyak, Manjago277000 MandjakEthnic Religions
Mandinka210000 MandinkaIslam
Papel204000 PapelEthnic Religions
Biafada67000 BiafadaIslam
Mankanya65000 MankanyaEthnic Religions
Bijogo44000 BidyogoEthnic Religions
Balanta, Mane34000 BalantaIslam
Maninka, Western23000 Maninkakan, WesternIslam
Maswanka, Kunante23000 MansoankaIslam
Balanta, Nyakra17000 BalantaEthnic Religions
Balanta, Naga15000 BalantaEthnic Religions
Bainouk, Gunyuno13000 Bainouk-GunyunoIslam
Nalu13000 NaluIslam
Jahanka11000 JahankaIslam
Wolof11000 WolofIslam
Jola-Felupe8700 Jola-FelupeEthnic Religions
Badyara6800 BadyaraIslam
Soninke6700 SoninkeIslam
Jola-Bayote6600 BayotEthnic Religions
Susu6500 SusuIslam
Portuguese6400 PortugueseChristianity
Cape Verdean2900 KabuverdianuChristianity
Balanta, Ganja2300 Balanta-GanjaEthnic Religions
Kobiana1000 KobianaEthnic Religions
Kasanga, Haal900 MandinkaEthnic Religions
Bassari600 OniyanEthnic Religions

Languages

25 languages recorded here.

Badyara
Bainouk-Gunyuno
Balanta
Balanta-Ganja
Bayot
Biafada
Bidyogo
Guinea-Bissau Creole
Jahanka
Jola-Felupe
Kabuverdianu
Kobiana
Mandinka
Mandjak
Maninkakan, Western
Mankanya
Mansoanka
Nalu
Oniyan
Papel
Portuguese
Pulaar
Soninke
Susu
Wolof

All catalogue fields

151 fields recorded
rog3
PU
iso3
GNB
iso2
GW
ctry
Guinea-Bissau
poplpeoples
2240000
cntpeoples
29
cntpeopleslr
16
poplpeopleslr
1081000
jpscalectry
4
rol3officiallanguage
por
officiallang
Portuguese
rlg3primary
6
religionprimary
Islam
percentchristianity
11.70666171728
percentevangelical
2.0613336352065
c_10_40window
Y
rog2
AFR
continent
Africa
regioncode
8
regionname
Africa, West and Central
workersneeded
31
harvest_rog3
PU
harvest_iso3
GNB
harvest_iso2
GW
harvest_owcountrycode
GUIB
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode
GW
harvest_countrynumber
91
harvest_ctry
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_ctryshort
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynamechinese
几内亚比绍
harvest_countrynamechineseshort
几内亚比绍
harvest_countrynamedutch
Guinekaays-Portu
harvest_countrynamefrench
Guinée-Bissau
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort
Guinée-Bissau
harvest_countrynamegerman
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynamegermanshort
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynameindonesian
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynameitalian
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynameitalianshort
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynamekorean
기니비사우
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort
기니비사우
harvest_countrynamenorwegian
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynameportuguese
Guiné-Bissau
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort
Guiné-Bissau
harvest_countrynamerussian
Гвинея-Бисау
harvest_countrynamerussianshort
Гвинея-Бисау
harvest_countrynamespanish
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynamespanishshort
Guinea-Bissau
harvest_countrynamevietnamese
Guiné-Bissau
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort
Guiné-Bissau
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix
de
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix
in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix
di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix
-
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix
i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix
em
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix
B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix
en
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix
harvest_ethnologuemapexists
Y
harvest_rog2
AFR
harvest_regioncode2414
4
harvest_regioncode
8
harvest_unsr
011
harvest_worldabc
A
harvest_maniregioncode
AP
harvest_capital
Bissau
harvest_population
2250000
harvest_populationsource
UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo
https://prayercast.com/guinea-bissau.html
harvest_prayercastvimeourl
41881803
harvest_waldnerguide
prayer-guide-gv+pu.pdf
harvest_unmap
https://un.org/geospatial/content/guinea-bissau
harvest_jpscale
4
harvest_c_10_40window
Y
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal
Y
harvest_owpctevang
1.6
harvest_owpctcharismatic
0.93897581
harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate
6.1999998
harvest_owcountrypage
guinea-bissau
harvest_literacyrate
60
harvest_literacysource
Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized
43
harvest_rol3officiallanguage
por
harvest_rol3secondarylanguage
pov
harvest_rlg3primary
6
harvest_pctanimist
35.1
harvest_pctbahai
0
harvest_pctbuddhism
0
harvest_pctchinese
0
harvest_pcthindu
0
harvest_pctislam
52.05
harvest_pctsikh
0
harvest_pctjudaism
0
harvest_pctnonreligious
1.95
harvest_pctother
0
harvest_pctchristian
10.9
harvest_pctchristianprotestant
1.43
harvest_pctchristianindependent
0.24
harvest_pctchristiananglican
0
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic
7.919999999999999
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic
0
harvest_pctchristianmarginal
0.07000000000000001
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated
1.24
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing
0
harvest_pctchristianother
0
harvest_pctchristianextra
0
harvest_rop1
A013
harvest_hdiyear
2015
harvest_hdivalue
0.424
harvest_hdirank
178
harvest_internetusers
3.8
harvest_flashmapzoom
1176
harvest_flashmapzoomx
-470
harvest_flashmapzoomy
-567
harvest_googlemapzoom
7
harvest_googlemaplat
12
harvest_googlemaplng
-15
harvest_ctrylatitude
11.803749
harvest_ctrylongitude
-15.180413
harvest_securitylevel
0
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom
https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/guinea-bissau/
harvest_provincesdisplayable
Y
harvest_adm1label
Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode
105
harvest_poplgrowthrate
2.383474576271186
harvest_godreportsurl
http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=gw&joshua=pu
harvest_datareportalurl
https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-japan
harvest_internetusage
4
harvest_internetusagesourceyear
2017
harvest_areasquaremiles
13946
harvest_areasquarekilometers
36125
harvest_populationpersquaremile
97
harvest_countryphonecode
245
harvest_wincountryprofile
http://win1040.com/page.php?id=545
harvest_owpctchristian1986
6.4
harvest_owpctevangelical1986
0.7
harvest_owpctchristian1993
6.2
harvest_owpctevangelical1993
0.8
harvest_owpctchristian2001
14.32
harvest_owpctevangelical2001
1.1
harvest_religiondatayear
2010
harvest_internetctrycode
.gw
harvest_worldfactbookurl
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/guinea-bissau
harvest_source
pjj
harvest_editname
BM
harvest_editdate
09/12/02 00:00:00