Bangassou
Bangassou is the capital of the Mbomou prefecture in the Central African Republic on the river Mbomou near the border with the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Type: City with 31,500 residents
- Description: city in Central African Republic
- Also known as: “Bangassu” and “بانجاسو”
Bangassou
- Categories: border city and locality
- Location: Mbomou Prefecture, Central African Republic, Central Africa, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Bangassou” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bangassou”
- Albanian: “Bangassou”
- Amharic: “ባንጋሱ”
- Arabic: “بانقاسو”
- Arabic: “بنجاسو”
- Asturian: “Bangassou”
- Azerbaijani: “Bangassou”
- Bengali: “বাঙ্গাসু”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Bangassou”
- Hindi: “बांगासु”
- Hindi: “बेंगास्यु”
- Indonesian: “Bangassou”
- Italian: “Bangassou”
- Japanese: “バンガス”
- Japanese: “バンガスー”
- Javanese: “Bangassou”
- Kannada: “ಬಂಗಾಸೌ”
- Kazakh: “Бангассу”
- Kirghiz: “Бангассу”
- Korean: “방가수”
- Latvian: “Bangasou”
- Lithuanian: “Bangasu”
- Malay: “Bangassou”
- Marathi: “बँगससोऊ”
- Mingrelian: “ბანგასუ”
- Northern Frisian: “Bangassou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bangassou”
- Oromo: “Bangassou”
- Panjabi: “ਬੰਗਾਸੂ”
- Persian: “بانگاسو”
- Polish: “Bangassou”
- Portuguese: “Bangassou”
- Pushto: “بنگاسو”
- Romanian: “Bangassou”
- Russian: “Бангасу”
- Sango: “Bängâsu”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bangassou”
- Shona: “Bangassou”
- Sinhala: “බංගස්සොඋ”
- Somali: “Bangassou”
- Spanish: “Bangassou”
- Swahili: “Bangassou”
- Swedish: “Bangassou”
- Tajik: “Бангассу”
- Tamil: “பங்காஸ்சௌ”
- Tatar: “Бангассу”
- Telugu: “బంగాస్సౌ”
- Thai: “บานกัสโซ”
- Turkish: “Bangassou”
- Ukrainian: “Банґасу”
- Urdu: “بانگاسؤ”
- Urdu: “بنگاسو”
- Uzbek: “Bangassou”
- Vietnamese: “Bangassou”
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