GW — Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau is a small West African nation, one of the smallest on the continent, with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean and the Bijagós archipelago. A former Portuguese colony, it gained independence in 1974. Bissau, the capital, is the main urban center. Guinea-Bissau uses the West African CFA franc (XOF), having adopted it in 1997 replacing the Guinea-Bissauan Peso. For developers, the GW country code distinguishes it from GN (Guinea) and GQ (Equatorial Guinea). The pt-GW locale handles Portuguese as spoken in Guinea-Bissau, with local variations from Brazilian and European Portuguese. The .gw domain serves as the national ccTLD, and +245 is the dialing code. Guinea-Bissau's position as a Portuguese-speaking country within the predominantly French-speaking WAEMU currency zone creates unique localization requirements, combining Portuguese language conventions with CFA franc currency formatting.