DR Congo
Bas-Uele
Buta

Buta

Buta is a city in the northern , lying on the Rubi River, a tributary of the Itimbiri River. It is the capital of Bas-Uele province.
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  • Type: City with 80,800 residents
  • Description: Buta is the capital of the Bas-Uele province in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the dismemberment of the former Orientale Province.
  • Also known as: “Buta, Democratic Republic of the Congo”

Buta

Latitude
2.7933° or 2° 47′ 36″ north
Longitude
24.7287° or 24° 43′ 43″ east
Population
80,800
Elevation
402 metres (1,319 feet)
IATA airport code
BZU
United Nations Location Code
CD BZU
Open location code
6GJ6QPVH+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435380660
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
217570
Wiki­data ID
Q736905
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Buta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوتا”
  • Asturian: “Buta”
  • Belarusian: “Бута”
  • Bengali: “বুটা”
  • Bulgarian: “Бута”
  • Catalan: “Buta”
  • Cebuano: “Buta”
  • Chinese: “布塔”
  • Croatian: “Buta”
  • Danish: “Buta”
  • Dutch: “Buta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوتا”
  • Esperanto: “Buta”
  • Finnish: “Buta”
  • French: “Buta”
  • Galician: “Buta”
  • Georgian: “ბუტა (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “ბუტა”
  • German: “Buta”
  • Greek: “Μπούτα”
  • Gujarati: “બુટા”
  • Hindi: “बूटा”
  • Hungarian: “Buta”
  • Indonesian: “Buta”
  • Italian: “Buta”
  • Japanese: “ブタ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೂಟಾ”
  • Korean: “부타”
  • Latvian: “Buta”
  • Lingala: “Buta”
  • Lithuanian: “Buta”
  • Malay: “Buta”
  • Marathi: “बुटा”
  • Mingrelian: “ბუტა”
  • Northern Frisian: “Buta (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Buta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buta”
  • Persian: “بوتا”
  • Polish: “Buta”
  • Portuguese: “Buta”
  • Romanian: “Buta, Republica Democrată Congo”
  • Romanian: “Buta, Republica Democratică Congo”
  • Russian: “Бут”
  • Russian: “Бута”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Buta (DR Kongo)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Buta”
  • Sinhala: “බුටා”
  • Spanish: “Buta”
  • Swahili: “Buta”
  • Swedish: “Buta”
  • Tagalog: “Buta, Demokratikong Republika ng Congo”
  • Tamil: “புட்ட”
  • Telugu: “బూటా”
  • Thai: “บูตวน”
  • Turkish: “Buta”
  • Ukrainian: “Бута”
  • Urdu: “بوتا”
  • Vietnamese: “Buta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Buta, Bas-Uele”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Buta”
  • Zulu: “Buta, Khongo-Kinshasa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Buta”. Photo: Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Public domain.