<item><hi format=bold>International disputes:</hi> Guinea-Bissau and Senegal signed an agreement resolving their maritime boundary in 1993
<item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> tropical; generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds
<item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east
<item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> hot, dry, dusty harmattan haze may reduce visibility during dry season; brush fires
<item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> party to—Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Wetlands; signed, but not ratifed—Biodiversity, Climate Change