Bau-Bau

Baubau is a city in province, . The city is located on the southwest coast of island. Baubau attained city status on 21 June 2001 after Law Number 13 of 2001 was passed.
  • City with 155,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 15 metres (49 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code BUW
  • Description: city in Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as
    “Baoebaoe”
    “Bau Bau City”
    “Boetoeng”
    “Boeton”
    “Buton”
    “Butung”

Bau-Bau

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Latitude
-5.462° or 5° 27′ 43″ south
Longitude
122.6058° or 122° 36′ 21″ east
Open location code
6Q64GJQ4+58
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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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: “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: “Kota Baubau”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Bau-Bau”
  • Jèrriais: “Baubau”
  • 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”
  • Neapolitan: “Baubau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baubau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baubau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bau-Bau”
  • Persian: “باوباو”
  • Persian: “باوبو (شهر)”
  • Picard: “Baubau”
  • Piemontese: “Baubau”
  • Polish: “Bau-Bau”
  • Portuguese: “Baubau”
  • Romanian: “Bau-Bau”
  • Romansh: “Baubau”
  • Russian: “Бау-Бау”
  • Russian: “Баубау”
  • 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”

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