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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 163,000 residents
- Description: city in Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort de Shinkakasa.
Fort de Shinkakasa
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Fort de Shinkakasa, also called Fort Boma, was a fortification built in the Congo Free State to defend access to the Congo river in 1891. It is located about 1.5 kilometres west of Boma which was the capital of the Free State and later the Belgian Congo from 1886 to 1926.
Boma
- Categories: official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and locality
- Location: Boma, Bas-Congo Province, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-5.85° or 5° 51′ southLongitude
13.05° or 13° 3′ eastPopulation
163,000Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)IATA airport code
BOAUnited Nations Location Code
CD BOAOpen location code
6F6M5322+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 29806459OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2316702Wikidata ID
Q223917
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Bulgarian: “Мбома”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “בומה”
- Hindi: “बोमा”
- Hungarian: “Boma”
- Icelandic: “Boma”
- Indonesian: “Boma, Republik Demokratik Kongo”
- Indonesian: “Boma”
- Irish: “Boma”
- Italian: “Boma”
- Japanese: “ボーマ”
- Japanese: “ボマ”
- Kannada: “ಬೋಲೋಬೊ”
- Kongo: “Boma”
- 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”
- Polish: “Mboma”
- Portuguese: “Boma”
- Romanian: “Boma”
- Russian: “Бома”
- Serbian: “Boma”
- Serbian: “Ville de 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”
- 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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Notable Places Nearby
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