Bougainville Island
Bougainville Island is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea. Its land area is 9,384 km, lies to the north, across the 400–500-metre-wide Buka Strait.
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- Island
- …has about 234,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 2,720 metres (8,910 feet)
- Description: island in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as“Bougainville”“Bougainville Insel”
Bougainville Island
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
-6.25182° or 6° 15′ 7″ south
Longitude
155.36247° or 155° 21′ 45″ east
Open location code
6R5QP9X6+7X
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Bougainville Island” goes by many names.
BougainvilleAfrikaans
جزيرة بوغانفيلArabic
جزيرة بوغاينفيلArabic
Բուգենվիլ կղզիArmenian
BuqenvilAzerbaijani
Bougainville UharteaBasque
БугенвільBelarusian
востраў БугенвільBelarusian
Bougainville (ostrvo)Bosnian
Ostrvo BougainvilleBosnian
БугенвилBulgarian
BougainvilleCatalan
Illa de BougainvilleCatalan
Bougainville IslandCebuano
BougainvilleCentral Bikol
Bougainville (isla)Central Bikol
布干維爾島Chinese
布干维尔岛Chinese
BougainvilleCzech
BougainvilleDanish
BougainvilleDutch
جزيره بوجاينفيلEgyptian Arabic
BougainvilleEsperanto
BugenviloEsperanto
Insulo BougainvilleEsperanto
BougainvilleEstonian
Bougainville’i saarEstonian
BougainvilleFinnish
BougainvilleGalician
ბუგენვილიGeorgian
Αυτόνομη Επαρχία του ΜπουγκαινβίλGreek
ΜπουγκαινβίλGreek
ΜπούκανβιλGreek
Tsibirin BougainvilleHausa
בוגנווילHebrew
BougainvilleHungarian
Bougainville-eyjaIcelandic
Pulau BougainvilleIndonesian
BougainvilleInterlingue
Oileán BougainvilleIrish
BougainvilleItalian
Isola di BougainvilleItalian
ブーゲンヴィル島Japanese
ブーゲンビル島Japanese
부갠빌 주Korean
부건빌섬Korean
Insula BougainvilleLatin
Bugenvila salaLatvian
Bugenvilio salaLithuanian
БугенвилMacedonian
Pulau BougainvilleMalay
बोगनव्हिलMarathi
बोगनव्हिल द्वीपMarathi
बोगनव्हिल बेटMarathi
ბუგენვილიMingrelian
BougainvilleNorwegian
BougainvilleNorwegian Bokmål
BougainvilleNorwegian Nynorsk
جزیره بوگنویلPersian
BougainvillePolish
Wyspa Bougainville’aPolish
BougainvilleRomanian
Insula BougainvilleRomanian
БугенвильRussian
остров БугенвильRussian
Bougainville IslandScots
BugenvilSerbian
БогенвилSerbian
БугенвилSerbian
BougainvilleSerbo-Croatian
Ostvro BugenvilSerbo-Croatian
Otok BougainvilleSerbo-Croatian
BougainvilleSlovak
BougainvilleSlovenian
BougainvilleSwedish
เกาะบูเกนวิลล์Thai
BogenvilTok Pisin
BougainvilleTok Pisin
North SolomonsTok Pisin
Not SolomonsTok Pisin
BougainvilleTurkish
БугенвільUkrainian
جزیرہ بوگاینویلUrdu
BugenvilUzbek
BougainvilleVietnamese
Đảo BougainvilleVietnamese
Puro han BougainvilleWaray (Philippines)
BougainvilleWelsh
BougainvilleWestern Frisian
Bougainville (eilân)Western Frisian
Бугенвиль ошмаотыWestern Mari
بوگنولیا جزیرہWestern Panjabi
布干维尔岛Wu Chinese
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