Guinea-Bissau

The country calling code for Guinea-Bissau is +245. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Guinea-Bissau number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Guinea-Bissau is assigned GW as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and GNB as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Guinea-Bissau is .gw. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Guinea-Bissau is the West African CFA franc, with the ISO 4217 code XOF and the symbol Fr. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Guinea-Bissau are quoted in XOF. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Guinea-Bissau is UTC, currently UTC+00:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Guinea-Bissau is Bissau. Guinea-Bissau sits in Africa, specifically the Western Africa subregion. Its approximate centre point is 12.00000000, -15.00000000. Traffic in Guinea-Bissau drives on the right. Languages recorded for Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese.

Guinea-Bissau shares a land border with 2 countries: Guinea and Senegal. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.