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Descriptor English: Guinea-Bissau
Descriptor Spanish: Guinea Bissau
Descriptor Guinea-Bisáu
Entry term(s) Guinea Portuguesa
Scope note: República de África occidental, situada al sur de SENEGAL y al oeste de GUINEA. Su capital es Bissau.
Descriptor Portuguese: Guiné-Bissau
Descriptor French: Guinée-Bissau
Entry term(s): Guinea, Portuguese
Guinea-Bissau, Republic of
Portuguese Guinea
Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Tree number(s): Z01.058.290.190.380
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006169
Scope note: A republic in western Africa, south of SENEGAL and west of GUINEA. Its capital is Bissau.
Annotation: do not confuse entry term PORTUGUESE GUINEA (its former name) with GUINEA (formerly French Guinea) or EQUATORIAL GUINEA (formerly Spanish Guinea)
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
History Note: 80
DeCS ID: 6319
Unique ID: D006169
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1980/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Guinea-Bissau - Preferred
Concept UI M0009708
Scope note A republic in western Africa, south of SENEGAL and west of GUINEA. Its capital is Bissau.
Preferred term Guinea-Bissau
Entry term(s) Guinea, Portuguese
Guinea-Bissau, Republic of
Portuguese Guinea
Republic of Guinea-Bissau



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