Bau-Bau
Baubau is a city in Southeast Sulawesi province, Indonesia. The city is located on the southwest coast of Buton island. Baubau attained city status on 21 June 2001 after Law Number 13 of 2001 was passed.Photo: MosheA, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 155,000 residents
- Description: city in Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Baoebaoe”, “Bau Bau”, “Bau Bau City”, “Baubau”, “Baubau City”, “Boetoeng”, “Boeton”, “Buton”, and “Butung”
Bau-Bau
- Categories: city of Indonesia, administrative city in Indonesia, and locality
- Location: Southeast Sulawesi, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-5.462° or 5° 27′ 43″ southLongitude
122.6058° or 122° 36′ 21″ eastPopulation
155,000Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)IATA airport code
BUWOpen location code
6Q64GJQ4+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 3380624457OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Bau-Bau” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Baubau”
- Afrikaans: “Baubau”
- Arabic: “باو باو”
- Arabic: “باوباو”
- Aragonese: “Baubau”
- Arpitan: “Baubau”
- Asturian: “Baubau”
- Balinese: “Kota Bau-Bau”
- Balinese: “Kota Baubau”
- Basque: “Baubau”
- Bavarian: “Baubau”
- Betawi: “Kota Baubau”
- Breton: “Baubau”
- Catalan: “Bau-Bau”
- Cebuano: “Baubau”
- Chinese: “Baubau Chhī”
- Chinese: “巴务巴务”
- Chinese: “巴务巴务市”
- Corsican: “Baubau”
- Croatian: “Baubau”
- Czech: “Baubau”
- Danish: “Baubau”
- Dutch: “Bau-Bau”
- Esperanto: “Baubau”
- Estonian: “Baubau”
- Finnish: “Baubau”
- French: “Bau-Bau”
- French: “Baubau”
- Friulian: “Baubau”
- Galician: “Baubau”
- German: “Bau-Bau”
- German: “Baubau”
- Gorontalo: “Kota Baubau”
- Greek: “Μπάουμπαου”
- Hungarian: “Baubau”
- Icelandic: “Baubau”
- Ido: “Baubau”
- Indonesian: “Bau Bau”
- Indonesian: “Bau-Bau”
- Indonesian: “Baubau”
- Indonesian: “Kota Bau Bau”
- Indonesian: “Kota Bau-Bau”
- Indonesian: “Kota Baubau”
- Interlingua: “Baubau”
- Interlingue: “Baubau”
- Irish: “Baubau”
- Italian: “Bau-Bau”
- Japanese: “バウバウ”
- Japanese: “バウバウ市”
- Javanese: “Kutha Bau-Bau”
- Kongo: “Baubau”
- Korean: “바우바우”
- Latvian: “Baubau”
- Ligurian: “Baubau”
- Limburgan: “Baubau”
- Low German: “Baubau”
- Luxembourgish: “Baubau”
- Malagasy: “Kota Bau-Bau”
- Malay: “Bau-Bau”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Baubau Chhī”
- Minangkabau: “Baubau”
- Narom: “Baubau”
- Neapolitan: “Baubau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baubau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baubau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bau-Bau”
- Persian: “باوبو (شهر)”
- Persian: “باوبو”
- Picard: “Baubau”
- Piemontese: “Baubau”
- Polish: “Bau-Bau”
- Portuguese: “Baubau”
- Romanian: “Bau-Bau”
- Romansh: “Baubau”
- Russian: “Бау-Бау”
- Sardinian: “Baubau”
- Scots: “Bau-Bau”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baubau”
- Serbian: “Baubau”
- Sicilian: “Baubau”
- Slovak: “Baubau”
- Slovenian: “Baubau”
- Spanish: “Bau-bau”
- Spanish: “Bau-Bau”
- Spanish: “Baubau”
- Sundanese: “Baubau”
- Swahili: “Baubau”
- Swedish: “Bau-Bau”
- Swedish: “Baubau”
- Swiss German: “Baubau”
- Tatar: “Баубау”
- Turkish: “Baubau”
- Urdu: “باو باو”
- Venetian: “Baubau”
- Vietnamese: “Baubau”
- Vlaams: “Baubau”
- Volapük: “Baubau”
- Walloon: “Baubau”
- Welsh: “Baubau”
- Wolof: “Baubau”
- Zulu: “Baubau”
- “Bau Bau”
- “Bau-Bau”
- “Baubau”
- “Kota Bau Bau”
- “Kota Baubau”
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