Safim
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 57 ′ N , 15 ° 39 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Guinea-Bissau | ||
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| region | Biombo | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GW-BM | ||
| surface | 174.8 km² | ||
| Residents | 17,356 (2009) | ||
| density | 99.3 Ew. / km² | ||
Safim is a small town in western Guinea-Bissau with 2705 inhabitants (as of 2009). It is the seat of the sector of the same name with an area of 175 km² and around 17,000 inhabitants.
The most important overland road Guinea-Bissau leads from the capital Bissau through Safim, where it branches off into the parts of continental Guinea-Bissau to the north on the one hand and to the east and south on the other. Street stalls shape the town center.
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The sector includes 41 localities, mostly rural villages ( Tabancas ).
The city of Safim is divided into three districts ( Bairros ). The most important locations in the sector also include:
- Bissaguel
- Blom
- Cumano
- Insalma
- Intussa (also spelled Ntus)
- Djal (Reino de Djal)
sons and daughters of the town
- Rafael Barbosa (1924–2007), politician, resistance fighter, co-founder of the PAIGC and later dissident
Web links
Commons : Safim - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Private recordings of a drive through Safim to Bissau , video clip on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Inhabitants by region, sector and town by gender, 2009 census (p. 52, port.), PDF retrieval from the INE National Statistics Office of December 25, 2017
- ↑ Annual Statistical Report Guinea-Bissau 2015 (p. 10), PDF access from the National Statistics Office INE on December 25, 2017
- ↑ Joana Petrolho, Marta Rosa: À Descoberta da Guiné-Bissau . , Afectos com Letras / EU, Pombal 2015, ISBN 978-989-20-6252-5 , p. 54