DR Congo
Équateur Province
Basankusu

Basankusu

Basankusu is a town in Équateur Province, . It is the main town and administrative centre of the Basankusu Territory. In 2004, it had an estimated population of 23,764.
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  • Type: City with 41,100 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Basankuzu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basankusu Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Francish7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Basankusu Airstrip is an airport serving Basankusu, a city on the in Équateur Province, . The Basankusu non-directional beacon is located on the field.

Basankusu

Latitude
1.21917° or 1° 13′ 9″ north
Longitude
19.80137° or 19° 48′ 5″ east
Population
41,100
Elevation
336 metres (1,102 feet)
IATA airport code
BSU
United Nations Location Code
CD BSU
Open location code
6FHX6R92+MG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435856567
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2317285
Wiki­data ID
Q1102117
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Basankusu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باسنكوسو”
  • Asturian: “Basankusu”
  • Bengali: “বাসোাঙ্কুসু”
  • Chinese: “巴桑库苏”
  • Chinese: “巴桑庫蘇”
  • Danish: “Basankusu”
  • Dutch: “Basankusu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باسنكوسو”
  • Esperanto: “Basankusu”
  • Finnish: “Basankusu”
  • French: “Basankusu”
  • German: “Basankusu”
  • Greek: “Μπασανκούσου”
  • Gujarati: “બાસંકૂસુ”
  • Hausa: “Basankusu”
  • Hindi: “बसनकुसु”
  • Hungarian: “Basankusu”
  • Indonesian: “Basankusu”
  • Italian: “Basankusu”
  • Japanese: “バサンクス”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಸಂಕುಸು”
  • Korean: “바산쿠수”
  • Latvian: “Basankusa”
  • Lithuanian: “Basankusas”
  • Malay: “Basankusu”
  • Marathi: “बेसंकुसु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Basankusu”
  • Polish: “Basankusu”
  • Portuguese: “Basankusu”
  • Romanian: “Basankusu”
  • Russian: “Басанкусу”
  • Sinhala: “බසන්කුසු”
  • Spanish: “Basankusu”
  • Swahili: “Basankusu”
  • Swedish: “Basankusu”
  • Tamil: “பாசாங்குசு”
  • Telugu: “బసంకుసు”
  • Thai: “บาซานคุซู”
  • Turkish: “Basankusu”
  • Ukrainian: “Басанкусу”
  • Urdu: “باسان کوسو”
  • Vietnamese: “Basankusu”
  • Zulu: “Basankusu”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Basankusu”. Photo: Francish7, Public domain.