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Bau

Mbau

Bau is the main village on Bau Island, . Once integral to the power and economy of the chiefly village, the villages of Lasakau and Soso are also located on the twenty-two acre island which became the centre of traditional power throughout the Fiji Islands in the nineteenth century.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village on Bau Island, Fiji
  • Also known as: “Bau”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bau.

Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a small in , off the east coast of the main island of . rose to prominence in the mid-1800s and became Fiji's dominant power; until its cession to Britain, it has maintained its influence in politics and leadership right through to modern Fiji.

Mbau

Latitude
-17.97231° or 17° 58′ 20″ south
Longitude
178.61549° or 178° 36′ 56″ east
Open location code
5VJW2JH8+35
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1849541480
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
11243323
Wiki­data ID
Q25677
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Mbau” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bau”
  • Afar: “Bau”
  • Afrikaans: “Bau”
  • Albanian: “Bau”
  • Aragonese: “Bau”
  • Arpitan: “Bau”
  • Asturian: “Bau”
  • Atayal: “Bau”
  • Atikamekw: “Bau”
  • Aymara: “Bau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bau”
  • Bambara: “Bau”
  • Banjar: “Bau”
  • Basque: “Bau”
  • Bavarian: “Bau”
  • Bislama: “Bau”
  • Breton: “Bau”
  • Cajun French: “Bau”
  • Catalan: “Bau”
  • Cebuano: “Bau”
  • Chamorro: “Bau”
  • Chavacano: “Bau”
  • Cheyenne: “Bau”
  • Choctaw: “Bau”
  • Cornish: “Bau”
  • Corsican: “Bau”
  • Creek: “Bau”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bau”
  • Czech: “Bau”
  • Danish: “Bau”
  • Dinka: “Bau”
  • Dutch: “Bau”
  • Esperanto: “Bau”
  • Estonian: “Bau”
  • Ewe: “Bau”
  • Extremaduran: “Bau”
  • Faroese: “Bau”
  • Fijian: “Bau-Lomanikoro”
  • Fijian: “Bau”
  • Finnish: “Bau”
  • French: “Bau”
  • Friulian: “Bau”
  • Fulah: “Bau”
  • Gagauz: “Bau”
  • Galician: “Bau”
  • German: “Bau”
  • Gheg Albanian: “Bau”
  • Gorontalo: “Bau”
  • Guarani: “Bau”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Bau”
  • Haitian: “Bau”
  • Hausa: “Bau”
  • Herero: “Bau”
  • Hiligaynon: “Bau”
  • Hiri Motu: “Bau”
  • Icelandic: “Bau”
  • Ido: “Bau”
  • Igbo: “Bau”
  • Indonesian: “Bau”
  • Interlingua: “Bau”
  • Interlingue: “Bau”
  • Inupiaq: “Bau”
  • Irish: “Bau”
  • Italian: “Bau”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Bau”
  • Javanese: “Bau”
  • Jutish: “Bau”
  • Kabiyè: “Bau”
  • Kabyle: “Bau”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bau”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bau”
  • Kashubian: “Bau”
  • Kikuyu: “Bau”
  • Kinaray-A: “Bau”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bau”
  • Kölsch: “Bau”
  • Kongo: “Bau”
  • Krio: “Bau”
  • Kurdish: “Bau”
  • Ladino: “Bau”
  • Latgalian: “Bau”
  • Latin: “Bau”
  • Latvian: “Bau”
  • Ligurian: “Bau”
  • Limburgan: “Bau”
  • Lingala: “Bau”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bau”
  • Lithuanian: “Bau”
  • Liv: “Bau”
  • Livvi: “Bau”
  • Lojban: “Bau”
  • Lombard: “Bau”
  • Low German: “Bau”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bau”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bau”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bau”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Bau”
  • Malagasy: “Bau”
  • Malay: “Bau”
  • Maltese: “Bau”
  • Manx: “Bau”
  • Maori: “Bau”
  • Mapudungun: “Bau”
  • Marshallese: “Bau”
  • Megleno Romanian: “Bau”
  • Minangkabau: “Bau”
  • Mirandese: “Bau”
  • Narom: “Bau”
  • Nauru: “Bau”
  • Navajo: “Bau”
  • Neapolitan: “Bau”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bau”
  • Northern Sami: “Bau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bau”
  • Novial: “Bau”
  • Nyanja: “Bau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bau”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bau”
  • Oromo: “Bau”
  • Pampanga: “Bau”
  • Pangasinan: “Bau”
  • Papiamento: “Bau”
  • Pedi: “Bau”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Bau”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Bau”
  • Picard: “Bau”
  • Piemontese: “Bau”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bau”
  • Plautdietsch: “Bau”
  • Prussian: “Bau”
  • Quechua: “Bau”
  • Romanian: “Bau”
  • Romansh: “Bau”
  • Rundi: “Bau”
  • Russian: “Бау (деревня)”
  • Russian: “Бау”
  • Samoan: “Bau”
  • Samogitian: “Bau”
  • Sango: “Bau”
  • Santali: “Bau”
  • Sardinian: “Bau”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bau”
  • Scots: “Bau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bau”
  • Serbian: “Bau”
  • Shona: “Bau”
  • Sicilian: “Bau”
  • Silesian: “Bau”
  • Slovak: “Bau”
  • Slovenian: “Bau”
  • Somali: “Bau”
  • Southern Sami: “Bau”
  • Southern Sotho: “Bau”
  • Spanish: “Bau”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Bau”
  • Sundanese: “Bau”
  • Swahili: “Bau”
  • Swati: “Bau”
  • Swedish: “Bau”
  • Swiss German: “Bau”
  • Tagalog: “Bau”
  • Tatar: “Bau”
  • Tetum: “Bau”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bau”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Bau”
  • Tsonga: “Bau”
  • Tswana: “Bau”
  • Tumbuka: “Bau”
  • Turkmen: “Bau”
  • Twi: “Bau”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bau”
  • Venda: “Bau”
  • Venetian: “Bau”
  • Veps: “Bau”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bau”
  • Volapük: “Bau”
  • Võro: “Bau”
  • Votic: “Bau”
  • Walloon: “Bau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bau”
  • Welsh: “Bau”
  • Western Frisian: “Bau”
  • Wolof: “Bau”
  • Xhosa: “Bau”
  • Yoruba: “Bau”
  • Zeeuws: “Bau”
  • Zhuang: “Bau”
  • Zulu: “Bau”
  • “Bau”

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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 Wikipedia page “Mbau”. Photo: Maxim75, CC BY-SA 4.0.