Central Africa
Central African Republic
Mbomou Prefecture

Bangassou

Bangassou is the capital of the Mbomou prefecture in the on the river Mbomou near the border with the neighbouring .
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  • Type: City with 31,500 residents
  • Description: city in Central African Republic
  • Also known as: “Bangassu”

Bangassou

Latitude
4.7435° or 4° 44′ 37″ north
Longitude
22.8233° or 22° 49′ 24″ east
Population
31,500
Elevation
506 metres (1,660 feet)
IATA airport code
BGU
United Nations Location Code
CF BGU
Open location code
6GP4PRVF+C8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2707959938
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
240498
Wiki­data ID
Q806478
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Bangassou” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Bangassou”
  • Arabic: “بانجاسو”
  • Asturian: “Bangassou”
  • Bengali: “বানঙ্গাসৌ”
  • Catalan: “Bangassou”
  • Cebuano: “Bangassou”
  • Chinese: “班加蘇”
  • Czech: “Bangassou”
  • Danish: “Bangassou”
  • Dutch: “Bangassou”
  • Esperanto: “Bangassou”
  • Finnish: “Bangassou”
  • French: “Bangassou”
  • Galician: “Bangassou”
  • German: “Bangassou”
  • Greek: “Μπανγκάσου”
  • Gujarati: “બેંગૌસૌ”
  • Hindi: “बेंगास्यु”
  • Indonesian: “Bangassou”
  • Italian: “Bangassou”
  • Japanese: “バンガスー”
  • Kannada: “ಬಂಗಾಸೌ”
  • Korean: “방가수”
  • Latvian: “Bangasou”
  • Lithuanian: “Bangasu”
  • Malay: “Bangassou”
  • Marathi: “बँगससोऊ”
  • Mingrelian: “ბანგასუ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bangassou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bangassou”
  • Persian: “بانگاسو”
  • Polish: “Bangassou”
  • Portuguese: “Bangassou”
  • Romanian: “Bangassou”
  • Russian: “Бангасу”
  • Sango: “Bängâsu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bangassou”
  • Shona: “Bangassou”
  • Sinhala: “බංගස්සොඋ”
  • Spanish: “Bangassou”
  • Swahili: “Bangassou”
  • Swedish: “Bangassou”
  • Tamil: “பங்காஸ்சௌ”
  • Telugu: “బంగాస్సౌ”
  • Thai: “บานกัสโซ”
  • Turkish: “Bangassou”
  • Ukrainian: “Банґасу”
  • Urdu: “بانگاسؤ”
  • Vietnamese: “Bangassou”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Bangassou”. Photo: Alexsegrelles, CC BY-SA 3.0.