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In other languages: PortuguêsGuide to Guinea-Bissau ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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Guinea-Bissau was once the kingdom of Gabù (Kaabu), part of the Mali Empire; parts of the kingdom persisted until the eighteenth century. Although the rivers and coast of this area were among the first places colonized by the Portuguese, who began slave trade in the seventeenth century, the interior was not explored until the nineteenth century
Guinea-Bissau Map
Regions
Guinea-Bissau is divided into eight regions and one autonomous sector:
- Bafatá
- Biombo
- Bissau (autonomous sector)
- Bolama
- Cacheu
- Gabu
- Oio
- Quinara
- Tombali