Buka Island

Buka Island is the second-largest island in the , in eastern . It is in Buka Rural LLG of North Bougainville District, with the Autonomous Region's and district's capital city of Buka on the island.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island of Papua New Guinea
  • Also known as: Bouka”, “Lord Anson’s Island”, and “Winchelsea’s Island

Buka Island

Latitude
-5.23105° or 5° 13′ 52″ south
Longitude
154.63069° or 154° 37′ 51″ east
Population
54,000
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
IATA airport code
BUA
Open location code
6R6PQJ9J+H7
Geo­Names ID
2098913
Wiki­data ID
Q860540
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Buka Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: جزيرة بوكا
  • Asturian: Buka
  • Asturian: islla Buka
  • Basque: Buka
  • Belarusian: Бука
  • Belarusian: Востраў Бука
  • Cebuano: Buka Island
  • Central Bikol: Buka (isla)
  • Central Bikol: Buka
  • Chinese: 布卡岛
  • Chinese: 布卡島
  • Chinese: 布喀島
  • Czech: Buka
  • Dutch: Buka
  • Esperanto: Buka
  • Estonian: Buka saar
  • Estonian: Buka
  • French: Buka
  • French: Ile Buka
  • French: Île Buka
  • Galician: Illa de Buka
  • Georgian: ბუკა
  • German: Buka
  • Indonesian: Pulau Buka
  • Italian: Buka
  • Japanese: ブカ島
  • Korean: 부카섬
  • Lithuanian: Buka
  • Mingrelian: ბუკა
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Buka
  • Norwegian: Buka
  • Persian: جزیره بوکا
  • Polish: Buka
  • Portuguese: Buca
  • Portuguese: Buka
  • Portuguese: Ilha Buka
  • Russian: Бука
  • Spanish: Buka
  • Swedish: Buka
  • Turkish: Buka Adası
  • Ukrainian: Бука
  • Welsh: Ynys Buka
  • Western Mari: Бука ошмаоты
  • Western Panjabi: بوکا جزیرہ

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Buka Island”. Photo: Jeremy Weate, CC BY 2.0.