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.
- 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
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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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