Buka Island
Buka Island is the second-largest island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. 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.- Type: Island
- Description: island of Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Bouka”, “Ile Buka”, “Ilha Buka”, “Lord Anson’s Island”, and “Winchelsea’s Island”
Buka Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
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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”
- French: “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”
- Romanian: “Insula 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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