Bougainville Island

Bougainville Island is the main island of the , which is part of . Its land area is 9,384 km, lies to the north, across the 400–500-metre-wide .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Papua New Guinea
  • Also known as: “Bougainville Insel”, “Bougainville’i saar”, “Bugainville”, “Bugenvilo”, “Đảo Bougainville”, “Ile Bougainville”, “Île de Bougainville”, “Ilha Bougainville”, “Ilha de Bougainville”, “Isola di Bougainville”, “Mekamui”, “North Solomons”, “Not Solomons”, “Ostrvo Bougainville”, “Ostvro Bugenvil”, “PG-NSA”, “République de Bougainville”, “Republique de Mekamui”, “République indépendante de Bougainville”, “Salomon del Norte”, “Salomón del Norte”, “Αυτόνομη Επαρχία του Μπουγκαινβίλ”, “Μπούκανβιλ”, “востраў Бугенвіль”, “остров Бугенвиль”, “جزيرة بوغاينفيل”, “बोगनव्हिल द्वीप”, “부갠빌 주”, and “ブーゲンヴィル島”
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Bougainville Island

Latitude
-6.25182° or 6° 15′ 7″ south
Longitude
155.36247° or 155° 21′ 45″ east
Population
234,000
Elevation
919 metres (3,015 feet)
Open location code
6R5QP9X6+7X
Geo­Names ID
2099059
Wiki­data ID
Q201766
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Bougainville Island” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bougainville”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة بوغانفيل”
  • Armenian: “Բուգենվիլ կղզի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buqenvil”
  • Basque: “Bougainville uhartea”
  • Basque: “Bougainville Uhartea”
  • Belarusian: “Бугенвіль”
  • Bosnian: “Bougainville (ostrvo)”
  • Bulgarian: “Бугенвил”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Bougainville”
  • Cebuano: “Bougainville Island”
  • Central Bikol: “Bougainville (isla)”
  • Central Bikol: “Bougainville”
  • Chinese: “布干維爾島”
  • Chinese: “布干维尔岛”
  • Czech: “Bougainville”
  • Danish: “Bougainville”
  • Dutch: “Bougainville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره بوجاينفيل”
  • Esperanto: “Bougainville”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Bougainville”
  • Estonian: “Bougainville”
  • Finnish: “Bougainville”
  • French: “île Bougainville”
  • French: “Île Bougainville”
  • Galician: “Bougainville”
  • Georgian: “ბუგენვილი”
  • German: “Bougainville”
  • Greek: “Μπουγκαινβίλ”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin Bougainville”
  • Hebrew: “בוגנוויל”
  • Hungarian: “Bougainville”
  • Icelandic: “Bougainville-eyja”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Bougainville”
  • Interlingue: “Bougainville”
  • Irish: “Oileán Bougainville”
  • Italian: “Bougainville”
  • Japanese: “ブーゲンビル島”
  • Korean: “부건빌섬”
  • Latin: “Insula Bougainville”
  • Latvian: “Bugenvila sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Bugenvilio sala”
  • Macedonian: “Бугенвил”
  • Malay: “Pulau Bougainville”
  • Marathi: “बोगनव्हिल बेट”
  • Marathi: “बोगनव्हिल”
  • Mingrelian: “ბუგენვილი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bougainville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bougainville”
  • Norwegian: “Bougainville”
  • Persian: “جزیره بوگنویل”
  • Polish: “Bougainville”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Bougainville’a”
  • Portuguese: “Bougainville”
  • Romanian: “Insula Bougainville”
  • Russian: “Бугенвиль”
  • Scots: “Bougainville Island”
  • Serbian: “Bugenvil”
  • Serbian: “Богенвил”
  • Serbian: “Бугенвил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bougainville”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Bougainville”
  • Slovak: “Bougainville”
  • Slovenian: “Bougainville”
  • Spanish: “Bougainville”
  • Spanish: “Isla Bougainville”
  • Swedish: “Bougainville”
  • Thai: “เกาะบูเกนวิลล์”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bogenvil”
  • Turkish: “Bougainville”
  • Ukrainian: “Бугенвіль”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ بوگاینویل”
  • Uzbek: “Bugenvil”
  • Vietnamese: “Bougainville”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Puro han Bougainville”
  • Welsh: “Bougainville”
  • Western Frisian: “Bougainville (eilân)”
  • Western Frisian: “Bougainville”
  • Western Mari: “Бугенвиль ошмаоты”
  • Western Panjabi: “بوگنولیا جزیرہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “布干维尔岛”

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