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Bubaque

The Bijagos Islands is an archipelago in . The Bijagos Islands have been affected less by Western cultural influence than the mainland. Many of the smaller remote islands remain unspoilt paradises.
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  • Type: Town with 3,500 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Bubaquer”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bubaque Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving the island town of Bubaque, in . It is the Bijagos Archipelago's only airfield. The airport is on the north end of the island.

Bubaque

Latitude
11.30008° or 11° 18′ 0″ north
Longitude
-15.83124° or 15° 49′ 53″ west
Population
3,500
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
IATA airport code
BQE
United Nations Location Code
GW BQE
Open location code
7C368529+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10277751748
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2374583
Wiki­data ID
Q997407
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Bubaque” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Bubaque uhartea”
  • Catalan: “Bubaque”
  • Cebuano: “Bubaque”
  • Chinese: “布巴克”
  • Czech: “Bubaque”
  • Dutch: “Bubaque”
  • Esperanto: “Bubaque”
  • Finnish: “Bubaque”
  • French: “Bubaque”
  • German: “Bubaque”
  • Hebrew: “בובאקה”
  • Italian: “Bubaque”
  • Japanese: “ブバケ”
  • Japanese: “ブバケ島”
  • Japanese: “ブバック”
  • Japanese: “ブバック島”
  • Lithuanian: “Bubakė”
  • Moksha: “Бубакэ”
  • Polish: “Bubaque”
  • Portuguese: “Bubaque”
  • Russian: “Бубаке”
  • Spanish: “Bubaque”
  • Swedish: “Bubaque”
  • Ukrainian: “Бубак”
  • Urdu: “بوباکے”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Bubaque”. Photo: Nammarci, CC BY 3.0.