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 9,300 km, lies to the north, across the 400–500 m wide Buka Strait.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Bougainville” and “Bougainville Insel”
Photo: Jeremy Weate, CC BY 2.0.
Bougainville Island
- Categories: colony and landform
- Location: Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Bougainville Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bougainville”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بوغانفيل”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بوغاينفيل”
- Armenian: “Բուգենվիլ կղզի”
- Azerbaijani: “Buqenvil”
- Basque: “Bougainville uhartea”
- Basque: “Bougainville Uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Бугенвіль”
- Belarusian: “востраў Бугенвіль”
- Bosnian: “Bougainville (ostrvo)”
- Bosnian: “Ostrvo Bougainville”
- Bulgarian: “Бугенвил”
- Catalan: “Bougainville”
- 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: “Bugenvilo”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Bougainville”
- Estonian: “Bougainville’i saar”
- Estonian: “Bougainville”
- Finnish: “Bougainville”
- French: “Bougainville”
- French: “Ile Bougainville”
- French: “île Bougainville”
- French: “Île Bougainville”
- French: “Île de Bougainville”
- French: “Mekamui”
- French: “République de Bougainville”
- French: “Republique de Mekamui”
- French: “République indépendante de Bougainville”
- Galician: “Bougainville”
- Georgian: “ბუგენვილი”
- German: “Bougainville”
- German: “PG-NSA”
- Greek: “Αυτόνομη Επαρχία του Μπουγκαινβίλ”
- Greek: “Μπουγκαινβίλ”
- Greek: “Μπούκανβιλ”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Bougainville”
- Hebrew: “בוגנוויל”
- Hungarian: “Bougainville”
- Icelandic: “Bougainville-eyja”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Bougainville”
- Interlingue: “Bougainville”
- Irish: “Oileán Bougainville”
- Italian: “Bougainville”
- Italian: “Isola di Bougainville”
- Japanese: “ブーゲンヴィル島”
- Japanese: “ブーゲンビル島”
- Korean: “부갠빌 주”
- Korean: “부건빌섬”
- Latin: “Insula Bougainville”
- Latvian: “Bugenvila sala”
- Lithuanian: “Bugenvilio sala”
- Macedonian: “Бугенвил”
- Malay: “Pulau Bougainville”
- Marathi: “बोगनव्हिल द्वीप”
- 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”
- Portuguese: “Bugainville”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Bougainville”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Bougainville”
- Romanian: “Bougainville”
- Romanian: “Insula Bougainville”
- Russian: “Бугенвиль”
- Russian: “остров Бугенвиль”
- Scots: “Bougainville Island”
- Serbian: “Bugenvil”
- Serbian: “Богенвил”
- Serbian: “Бугенвил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bougainville”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ostvro Bugenvil”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Bougainville”
- Slovak: “Bougainville”
- Slovenian: “Bougainville”
- Spanish: “Bougainville”
- Spanish: “Isla Bougainville”
- Spanish: “Salomon del Norte”
- Spanish: “Salomón del Norte”
- Swedish: “Bougainville”
- Thai: “เกาะบูเกนวิลล์”
- Tok Pisin: “Bogenvil”
- Tok Pisin: “Bougainville”
- Tok Pisin: “North Solomons”
- Tok Pisin: “Not Solomons”
- Turkish: “Bougainville”
- Ukrainian: “Бугенвіль”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ بوگاینویل”
- Uzbek: “Bugenvil”
- Vietnamese: “Bougainville”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo 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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