Boma

Boma is a port town on the , some 100 kilometres upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, in the of the , adjacent to the border with .
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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.

Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The , 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

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
United Nations Location Code
CD BOA
Open location code
6F6M5322+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29806459
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2316702
Wiki­data 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”
  • 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”
  • 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، 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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