Bight of Bonny
The Bight of Biafra, also known as the Bight of Bonny, is a bight off the west-central African coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea. It has also occasionally been referred to as the Bight of Africa because it is at this point where the direction of the Western coastline of the African continent most prominently changes from a north-south orientation to an east-west orientation.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Bay
- Description: bay off the coast of Africa
- Also known as“Baie de Biafra”“Bight of Biafra”“Ensenada de Biafra”
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
3.2° or 3° 12′ north
Longitude
8.5° or 8° 30′ east
Open location code
6FMC6G22+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bight of Bonny” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Golf van Bonny”
- Arabic: “خليج بيافرا”
- Armenian: “Բիաֆրա”
- Azerbaijani: “Biafra körfəzi”
- Basque: “Biafrako golkoa”
- Bavarian: “Bucht vo Bonny”
- Belarusian: “Біяфра”
- Belarusian: “Біяфрскі заліў”
- Belarusian: “Заліў Біяфра”
- Breton: “Pleg-mor Biafra”
- Catalan: “Golf de Biafra”
- Cebuano: “Bight of Biafra”
- Chinese: “邦尼湾”
- Chuvash: “Биафра кӳлмекĕ”
- Croatian: “Zaljev Biafra”
- Czech: “Biaferský záliv”
- Czech: “Bight of Bonny”
- Czech: “Záliv Bonny”
- Danish: “Biafrabugten”
- Danish: “Bonnybugten”
- Dutch: “Baai van Biafra”
- Dutch: “Baai van Bonny”
- Dutch: “Bocht van Biafra”
- Dutch: “Bocht van Bonny”
- Dutch: “Golf van Biafra”
- Dutch: “Golf van Bonny”
- Esperanto: “Golfo de Biafro”
- Esperanto: “golfo de Bonny”
- Finnish: “Biafran lahti”
- Finnish: “Bonnynlahti”
- French: “Baie de Bonny”
- French: “Baie du Biafra”
- French: “Golfe de Bonny”
- French: “Golfe du Biafra”
- Galician: “Golfo de Biafra”
- Georgian: “ბიაფრის ყურე”
- German: “Bight of Bonny”
- German: “Bucht von Biafra”
- German: “Bucht von Bonny”
- Hausa: “Stuburi na Biafra”
- Hindi: “बिआफ़्रा की खाड़ी”
- Igala: “Bight Eyi Biafra”
- Igbo: “Bight of Biafra”
- Igbo: “Bight of Bonny”
- Indonesian: “Bight of Bonny”
- Indonesian: “Teluk bonny”
- Italian: “Baia di Biafra”
- Italian: “Golfo del Biafra”
- Italian: “Golfo di Biafra”
- Italian: “Golfo di Bonny”
- Japanese: “ビアフラ湾”
- Japanese: “ボニー湾”
- Korean: “보니만”
- Korean: “비아프라만”
- Latvian: “Biafras līcis”
- Lithuanian: “Biafros įlanka”
- Lithuanian: “Bonio įlanka”
- Macedonian: “Бијафра”
- Macedonian: “Бониски Залив”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Biafrabukta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Biafrabukten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bonnybukta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bonnybukten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Biafrabukta”
- Norwegian: “Biafrabukta”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Bight of Biafra”
- Persian: “خلیج بیافرا”
- Polish: “Zatoka Biafra”
- Polish: “Zatoka Bonny”
- Portuguese: “Golfo do Biafra”
- Pushto: “بیافرا خلیج”
- Russian: “Биафра (залив)”
- Russian: “Биафра”
- Russian: “Биафрский залив”
- Russian: “Бонни (залив)”
- Russian: “Залив Биафра”
- Russian: “Залив Бонни”
- Slovak: “Bonnyjský záliv”
- Spanish: “Bahía de Biafra”
- Spanish: “Golfo de Biafra”
- Spanish: “Golfo de Bonny”
- Swedish: “Biafrabukten”
- Swedish: “Bight of Biafra”
- Swedish: “Bonnybukten”
- Tatar: “Биафра култыгы”
- Tyap: “A̱ngam A̱sa̱khwot Boni”
- Tyap: “A̱ngam A̱sa̱khwot Byafra”
- Ukrainian: “Біафра”
- Venetian: “Golfo de Biafra”
- Western Frisian: “Golf fan Bonny”
- Wu Chinese: “邦尼灣”
- Yoruba: “Bight ti Biafra”
- Yue Chinese: “邦尼灣”
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