Oceania
Papua New Guinea
Bougainville

Buka

Buka is a town located on the southern coast of , in the , in eastern . It is administered under Buka Rural LLG.
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  • Type: City with 105,000 residents
  • Description: city in Papua New Guinea
  • Also known as: “Buka, Papua New Guinea”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buka Airport.

Aerodrome
is an serving in the in . It is located at the southern end of the island, near Buka Passage behind the town of Buka, and pre-war Chinatown.

Buka

Latitude
-5.43242° or 5° 25′ 57″ south
Longitude
154.67018° or 154° 40′ 13″ east
Population
105,000
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PG BUA
Open location code
6R6PHM9C+23
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2064246378
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8714539
Wiki­data ID
Q2482800
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Satellite Map

Discover Buka from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Buka” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوكا”
  • Asturian: “Buka”
  • Basque: “Buka”
  • Belarusian: “Бука”
  • Central Bikol: “Buka”
  • Chinese: “布卡”
  • Czech: “Buka”
  • Dutch: “Buka”
  • French: “Buka”
  • Galician: “Buka”
  • German: “Buka”
  • Greek: “Μπούκα”
  • Indonesian: “Buka, Bougainville”
  • Italian: “Buka Rural”
  • Italian: “Buka”
  • Japanese: “ブカ (パプアニューギニア)”
  • Japanese: “ブカ”
  • Korean: “부카”
  • Mingrelian: “ბუკა (პაპუა-ახალი გვინეა)”
  • Mingrelian: “ბუკა”
  • Persian: “بوکا”
  • Polish: “Buka”
  • Portuguese: “Buca”
  • Russian: “Бука”
  • Slovak: “Buka”
  • Spanish: “Buka”
  • Tok Pisin: “Buka”
  • Turkish: “Buka”
  • Ukrainian: “Бука”
  • Urdu: “بوکا، پاپوا نیو گنی”

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