Bakassi

Bakassi is a peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea. It lies between the estuary, near the city of and the Rio del Ray estuary on the east.
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  • Type: peninsula
  • Description: peninsula in Cameroon
  • Also known as: Bakassi Peninsula

Bakassi

Latitude
4.8171° or 4° 49′ 2″ north
Longitude
8.6021° or 8° 36′ 8″ east
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
6FPCRJ82+VR
Geo­Names ID
9172954
Wiki­data ID
Q804272
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Yoruba—“Bakassi” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Bakassi
  • Asturian: Península Bakassi
  • Azerbaijani: Bakassi yarımadası
  • Basque: Bakassi
  • Belarusian: Бакасі
  • Belarusian: Паўвостраў Бакасі
  • Cebuano: Bakassi Peninsula
  • Chinese: 巴卡西半島
  • Czech: Bakassi
  • Danish: Bakassi
  • Dutch: Bakassi
  • Finnish: Bakassin niemimaa
  • French: Bakassi
  • German: Bakassi-Halbinsel
  • German: Bakassi
  • Hausa: Bakassi
  • Hebrew: בקאסי
  • Indonesian: Bakassi
  • Italian: Bakassi
  • Japanese: バカシ半島
  • Japanese: バカシ半島領有権問題
  • Korean: 바카시반도
  • Latvian: Bakassi
  • Lithuanian: Bakasis
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Bakassi - halvøy i Kamerun
  • Portuguese: Bakassi
  • Russian: Бакаси
  • Russian: Бакасси
  • Spanish: Bakassi
  • Swedish: Bakassi Peninsula
  • Swedish: Bakassihalvön
  • Turkish: Bakassi Yarımadası
  • Ukrainian: Бакасі
  • Wu Chinese: Bakassi
  • Wu Chinese: 巴卡西半岛
  • Wu Chinese: 白卡西半岛
  • Yoruba: Agbègbè Ìjọba Ìbílẹ̀ Bakassi

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Bakassi”. Photo: Shiraz Chakera, CC BY-SA 2.0.