Bourem
Bourem is a commune and small town in the Gao Region of northeastern Mali. The town sits on the left bank of the River Niger. It was the site of an attack by the Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security, and Development on the Malian Armed Forces and their Wagner Group allies on 12 September 2023.- Type: City with 42,400 residents
- Description: commune and town in Gao Region, Mali
- Also known as: “Burem” and “Imboraghane..”
Bourem
- Categories: commune of Mali and locality
- Location: Gao, Mali, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
16.95753° or 16° 57′ 27″ north
Longitude
-0.3468° or 0° 20′ 49″ west
Population
42,400
Elevation
270 metres (886 feet)
Open location code
7C8XXM53+27
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Bourem” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باوريم”
- Arabic: “بوريم”
- Bambara: “Burɛmu”
- Chinese: “Bourem”
- Chinese: “布雷姆”
- Dutch: “Bourem”
- Estonian: “Bourem”
- Finnish: “Bourem”
- French: “Bourem”
- German: “Bourem”
- Greek: “Μπουρέμ”
- Italian: “Bourem”
- Japanese: “ブーレム”
- Japanese: “ボウレム”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bourem”
- Persian: “بورم، مالی”
- Persian: “بورم”
- Polish: “Bourem”
- Portuguese: “Bourem”
- Russian: “Бурем”
- Spanish: “Bourem”
- Ukrainian: “Бурем (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Бурем”
- Uzbek: “Bourem”
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