Baucau

Baucau is 's second largest city, behind . It is located near the northern coast of Timor-Leste, 130 km east of Dili. Baucau is an important administrative and agricultural centre. It is the capital of a district with the same name.
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  • Type: Town with 15,000 residents
  • Description: city in East Timor
  • Also known as: “Bacau” and “Vila Salazar”
Photo: Janina M Pawelz, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Pousada de Baucau.

Hotel
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is a hotel.

Baucau

Latitude
-8.4789° or 8° 28′ 44″ south
Longitude
126.4527° or 126° 27′ 10″ east
Population
15,000
Elevation
442 metres (1,450 feet)
IATA airport code
BCH
UN/LOCODE
TL BCH
Open location code
6Q38GFC3+C3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1013912389
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1649539
Wiki­data ID
Q811130
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Baucau” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ባውካው”
  • Arabic: “باكاو”
  • Arabic: “باوكاو”
  • Armenian: “Բաուկաու”
  • Asturian: “Baucau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baukau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baykay”
  • Basque: “Baucau”
  • Belarusian: “Баўкаў”
  • Bengali: “বাউকাউ”
  • Bengali: “বুকাউ”
  • Catalan: “Baucau”
  • Cebuano: “Baucau (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Baucau”
  • Chinese: “包考”
  • Czech: “Baucau”
  • Danish: “Baucau”
  • Dutch: “Baucau”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باكاو”
  • Finnish: “Baucau”
  • French: “Baucau”
  • Galician: “Baucau”
  • German: “Baucau”
  • Greek: “Μπαουκάου”
  • Gujarati: “બકાઉ”
  • Hausa: “Baukau”
  • Hebrew: “באוקאו”
  • Hindi: “बाउकाउ”
  • Hindi: “बाउकाऊ”
  • Indonesian: “Baucau”
  • Interlingue: “Baucau”
  • Italian: “Baucau”
  • Japanese: “バウカウ”
  • Javanese: “Baukau”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಕೌ”
  • Kazakh: “Баукау”
  • Kirghiz: “Баукау”
  • Korean: “바우카우”
  • Latvian: “Baukau”
  • Lithuanian: “Baukau”
  • Malay: “Baucau”
  • Malay: “Baukau”
  • Marathi: “बकाऊ”
  • Mingrelian: “ბაუკაუ”
  • Mongolian: “Баукау”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baucau”
  • Norwegian: “Baucau”
  • Oromo: “Baukau”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਉਕਾਉ”
  • Persian: “بائوکائو”
  • Persian: “باوکاو”
  • Polish: “Baucau”
  • Portuguese: “Baucau”
  • Pushto: “باوکاو”
  • Russian: “Баукау”
  • Sinhala: “බෞකෞ”
  • Somali: “Baukau”
  • Spanish: “Baucau”
  • Swahili: “Baukau”
  • Swedish: “Baucau”
  • Tajik: “Баукау”
  • Tamil: “பாவ்சவ்”
  • Tatar: “Баукау”
  • Telugu: “బౌకావ్”
  • Tetum: “Baukau”
  • Thai: “เขตเบาเกา”
  • Thai: “เทศบาลเบาเกา”
  • Thai: “บาวคาว”
  • Turkish: “Baucau”
  • Turkish: “Baukau”
  • Ukrainian: “Баукау”
  • Urdu: “باوکاو”
  • Uzbek: “Baukau”
  • Vietnamese: “Baucau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baucau”

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