Bakassi
Bakassi is a peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea. It lies between the Cross River estuary, near the city of Calabar and the Rio del Ray estuary on the east.- Type: peninsula
- Description: peninsula in Cameroon
- Also known as: “Bakassi Peninsula”, “Península Bakassi”, “Бакаси”, and “バカシ半島領有権問題”
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
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yoruba—“Bakassi” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Bakassi”
- Azerbaijani: “Bakassi yarımadası”
- Basque: “Bakassi”
- Belarusian: “Бакасі”
- Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Бакасі”
- Cebuano: “Bakassi Peninsula”
- Chinese: “巴卡西半島”
- Croatian: “Bakassi”
- Czech: “Bakassi”
- Danish: “Bakassi”
- Dutch: “Bakassi”
- Finnish: “Bakassin niemimaa”
- French: “Bakassi”
- German: “Bakassi-Halbinsel”
- Hausa: “Bakassi”
- Hebrew: “בקאסי”
- Indonesian: “Bakassi”
- Italian: “Bakassi”
- Japanese: “バカシ半島”
- Korean: “바카시반도”
- Latvian: “Bakassi”
- Lithuanian: “Bakasis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bakassi - halvøy i Kamerun”
- Portuguese: “Bakassi”
- Russian: “Бакасси”
- Spanish: “Bakassi”
- Swedish: “Bakassi Peninsula”
- Swedish: “Bakassihalvön”
- Turkish: “Bakassi Yarımadası”
- Ukrainian: “Бакасі”
- Urdu: “باکاسی”
- Wu Chinese: “巴卡西半岛”
- Wu Chinese: “白卡西半岛”
- Yoruba: “Agbègbè Ìjọba Ìbílẹ̀ Bakassi”
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