Boma
Boma is a port town on the Congo River, some 100 kilometres upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, in the Kongo Central Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, adjacent to the border with Angola.
- Type: City with 163,000 residents
- Description: city in Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo”, “Ville de Boma”, “Мбома”, and “ボマ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fort de Shinkakasa.
Fort de Shinkakasa
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Boma
- Categories: official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and locality
- Location: Boma, Bas-Congo Province, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-5.85° or 5° 51′ south
Longitude
13.05° or 13° 3′ east
Population
163,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
BOA
UN/LOCODE
CD BOA
Open location code
6F6M5322+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Boma” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوما”
- Asturian: “Boma”
- Basque: “Boma”
- Belarusian: “Бома”
- Bengali: “বোমা”
- Bulgarian: “Бома”
- Catalan: “Boma”
- Cebuano: “Boma”
- Chinese: “博馬”
- Chinese: “博马”
- Croatian: “Boma”
- Czech: “Boma”
- Danish: “Boma”
- Dutch: “Boma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوما”
- Esperanto: “Boma”
- Estonian: “Boma”
- Finnish: “Boma”
- French: “Boma”
- Galician: “Boma”
- Georgian: “ბომა”
- German: “Boma”
- Greek: “Μπόμα”
- Gujarati: “બોમા”
- Hausa: “Boma, Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo”
- Hebrew: “בומה”
- Hindi: “बोमा”
- Hungarian: “Boma”
- Icelandic: “Boma”
- Indonesian: “Boma, Republik Demokratik Kongo”
- Indonesian: “Boma”
- Irish: “Boma”
- Italian: “Boma”
- Japanese: “ボーマ”
- Kannada: “ಬೋಲೋಬೊ”
- Kongo: “Mboma”
- Korean: “보마”
- Latvian: “Boma”
- Lingala: “Bóma”
- Lithuanian: “Boma”
- Malagasy: “Boma”
- Malay: “Boma”
- Marathi: “बोमा”
- Mingrelian: “ბომა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Boma”
- Norwegian: “Boma”
- Persian: “بوما”
- Polish: “Boma”
- Portuguese: “Boma”
- Romanian: “Boma”
- Russian: “Бома”
- Serbian: “Boma”
- Serbian: “Бома”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Boma (Demokratska Republika Kongo)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Boma”
- Shona: “Boma”
- Sinhala: “බොමා”
- Slovak: “Boma”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوما”
- Spanish: “Boma”
- Swahili: “Boma (Kongo)”
- Swahili: “Boma”
- Swedish: “Boma”
- Tamil: “போமா”
- Telugu: “బొమ”
- Thai: “โบมา”
- Turkish: “Boma, Kongo Demokratik Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Boma”
- Ukrainian: “Бома”
- Urdu: “بوما، جمہوری جمہوریہ کانگو”
- Urdu: “بوما”
- Uzbek: “Boma”
- Vietnamese: “Boma”
- Waray (Philippines): “Boma”
- Wu Chinese: “博马 (刚果民主共和国)”
- Wu Chinese: “博马（刚果民主共和国）”
- Wu Chinese: “博马”
- Zulu: “Boma, Khongo-Kinshasa”
- Zulu: “Boma”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Umpuelo and Kipungu 1.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: ENA RDC OUEST COMMUNAUTÉ KABONDO and First church.
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Worth a closer look: Kinshasa and Virunga National Park.
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