Birao
Birao is a remote and out of the way place in the very north of the Central African Republic. It is close to the Chad and Sudan border so there is some trade going on but mostly the place suffers from lack of government attention and money.Birao
- Type: City with 8,460 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Vakaga Prefecture, Central African Republic, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
10.2962° or 10° 17′ 46″ north
Longitude
22.781° or 22° 46′ 52″ east
Population
8,460
Elevation
468 metres (1,535 feet)
IATA airport code
IRO
United Nations Location Code
CF IRO
Open location code
7G247QWJ+F9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Birao” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Birao, Vakaga”
- Albanian: “Birao”
- Amharic: “ቢራዎ”
- Arabic: “بيراو”
- Asturian: “Birao”
- Azerbaijani: “Birao”
- Bengali: “বিরাও”
- Catalan: “Birao”
- Cebuano: “Birao”
- Chinese: “比勞”
- Danish: “Birao”
- Dutch: “Birao”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيراو”
- Finnish: “Birao”
- French: “Birao (ville)”
- French: “Birao”
- German: “Birao”
- Greek: “Μπιράο”
- Gujarati: “બિરાઓ”
- Hausa: “Birao”
- Hebrew: “ביראו”
- Hindi: “बिराओ”
- Indonesian: “Birao”
- Italian: “Birao”
- Japanese: “ビラオ”
- Javanese: “Birao”
- Kannada: “ಬಿರಾವೊ”
- Kazakh: “Бирао”
- Kirghiz: “Бирао”
- Korean: “비라오”
- Latvian: “Birao”
- Lithuanian: “Birao”
- Malay: “Birao”
- Marathi: “बिराओ”
- Mingrelian: “ბირაო”
- Northern Frisian: “Birao”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Birao”
- Oromo: “Birao”
- Panjabi: “ਬਿਰਾਓ”
- Persian: “بیرائو”
- Persian: “بیراو”
- Polish: “Birao”
- Portuguese: “Birao”
- Portuguese: “Birão”
- Pushto: “بيراو”
- Romanian: “Birao”
- Russian: “Бирао”
- Sango: “Biraö”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Birao”
- Sinhala: “බිරාඕ”
- Somali: “Birao”
- Spanish: “Birao”
- Swahili: “Birao”
- Swedish: “Birao”
- Tajik: “Бирао”
- Tamil: “பிராவ்”
- Tatar: “Бирао”
- Telugu: “బిరావ్”
- Thai: “ไบเรา”
- Turkish: “Birao”
- Ukrainian: “Бірао”
- Urdu: “بیراؤ”
- Urdu: “بیراو”
- Uzbek: “Birao”
- Vietnamese: “Birao”
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