Baucau
Baucau is Timor-Leste's second largest city, behind Dili. It is located on the northern coast of Timor-Leste, east of Dili. The city has Timor-Leste's only major airport outside of the capital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: city in East Timor
- Also known as: “Bacau”
Photo: Janina M Pawelz, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pousada de Baucau.
Baucau
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Baucau District, Timorese North Coast, Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-8.465° or 8° 27′ 54″ southLongitude
126.4586° or 126° 27′ 31″ eastPopulation
15,000Elevation
442 metres (1,450 feet)IATA airport code
BCHUnited Nations Location Code
TL BCHOpen location code
6Q38GFM5+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1013912389OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1649539Wikidata ID
Q811130
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Baucau” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باكاو”
- Armenian: “Բաուկաու”
- Asturian: “Baucau”
- 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”
- French: “Vila Salazar”
- Galician: “Baucau”
- German: “Baucau”
- Greek: “Μπαουκάου”
- Gujarati: “બકાઉ”
- Hebrew: “באוקאו”
- Hindi: “बाउकाउ”
- Indonesian: “Baucau”
- Interlingue: “Baucau”
- Italian: “Baucau”
- Japanese: “バウカウ”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಕೌ”
- Korean: “바우카우”
- Latvian: “Baukau”
- Lithuanian: “Baukau”
- Malay: “Baucau”
- Marathi: “बकाऊ”
- Mingrelian: “ბაუკაუ”
- Mongolian: “Баукау”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baucau”
- Norwegian: “Baucau”
- Persian: “بائوکائو”
- Polish: “Baucau”
- Portuguese: “Baucau”
- Portuguese: “Vila Salazar”
- Russian: “Баукау”
- Sinhala: “බෞකෞ”
- Spanish: “Baucau”
- Swedish: “Baucau”
- Tamil: “பாவ்சவ்”
- Telugu: “బౌకావ్”
- Tetum: “Baucau”
- Tetum: “Baukau”
- Thai: “เขตเบาเกา”
- Thai: “เทศบาลเบาเกา”
- Thai: “บาวคาว”
- Turkish: “Baucau”
- Ukrainian: “Баукау”
- Urdu: “باوکاو”
- Vietnamese: “Baucau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Baucau”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Baucau”. Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.