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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau is one of the 193 UN member states, in Western Africa. UN Tourism counted 52,000 international arrivals there in 2019, rarer than 96% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Prism.

Guinea-Bissau’s stamp in Globestamp
Prism · 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year
International arrivals
52,000in 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
191st of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Prismrarer than 96%
Area
32,959 km² (12,726 sq mi)
Population
1.9 millionNatural Earth estimate
Regions
9in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
1with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
1on Globestamp’s list

Does Guinea-Bissau count as a country?

Yes. Guinea-Bissau is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Guinea-Bissau?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Guinea-Bissau
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Guinea-Bissau stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Guinea-Bissau’s is Prism: the full spectrum with glints, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year. With 52,000 international arrivals in 2019, Guinea-Bissau is rarer than 96% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Guinea-Bissau

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Guinea-Bissau when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. With a single airport with scheduled flights (Osvaldo Vieira International Airport, OXB), photos only at the airport make a transit stamp, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Guinea-Bissau you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Guinea-Bissau, from 1 World Heritage Site.

World Heritage Sites 1

Bijagos Archipelago Biosphere Reserve (2025). On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Bissau403,339

Airports

Guinea-Bissau has 1 airport with scheduled flights. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

9 regions to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Guinea-Bissau into 9 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 9

Bafatá · Biombo · Bissau · Bolama · Cacheu · Gabú · Oio · Quinara · Tombali

Questions people ask

Is Guinea-Bissau a country?

Yes. Guinea-Bissau is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Guinea-Bissau a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 52,400 international arrivals in Guinea-Bissau in 2019, the 191st most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Guinea-Bissau stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Prism, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year, rarer than 96% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Guinea-Bissau count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Guinea-Bissau”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Guinea-Bissau

Near Guinea-Bissau

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