Basankusu
Basankusu is a town in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the main town and administrative centre of the Basankusu Territory. In 2004, it had an estimated population of 23,764.- Type: City with 41,100 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Basankuzu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basankusu Airport.
Basankusu Airport
Aerodrome
Basankusu Airstrip is an airport serving Basankusu, a city on the Lulonga River in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Basankusu non-directional beacon is located on the field.
Basankusu
- Category: locality
- Location: Basankusu, Équateur Province, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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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