Bougainville

Bougainville is the largest island of the archipelago, and an autonomous island region within .
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  • Type: State with 367,000 residents
  • Description: autonomous region of Papua New Guinea
  • Also known as: “AROB”, “Aŭtonoma Regiono Bougainville”, “Autonomous Region of Bougainville”, “Autonomous Region of Bouganville”, “Bougainville District”, “Bougainville Province”, “Bougainville-Provinz”, “Bugenvilis”, “Bugenvilo”, “Kieta District”, “Nord-Salomonoj”, “North Solomons”, “North Solomons Province”, “PG-NSB”, “Provincia di Bougainville”, “Região Autónoma de Bougainville”, “Sjeverni Solomoni”, “Vùng tự trị Bougainville”, “АРБ”, “Аутономна покрајина Бугенвил”, “Богенвил”, “Республика Мекамуи”, “Северна Соломонова Острва”, “Северни Соломони”, “Северные Соломоновые острова”, “Солтүстік Соломон аралдары”, “استان خودمختار بوگاينويل”, “استان سليمان شمالي”, “استان سلیمان شمالی”, “سليمان شمالي”, “سلیمان شمالی”, “बोगेनविल का स्वायत्त क्षेत्र”, “부건빌”, “북솔로몬”, “ブーゲンビル自治州政府”, and “布干維爾自治省”

Bougainville

Latitude of center
-5.9949° or 5° 59′ 42″ south
Longitude of center
154.9967° or 154° 59′ 48″ east
Population
367,000
Elevation
1,106 metres (3,629 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304993864
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2089470
Wiki­data ID
Q18826
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Bougainville” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Rajoni Autonom i Bougainville”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بوغانفيل ذات الحكم الذاتي”
  • Arabic: “منطقة بوغانفيل ذاتية الحكم”
  • Armenian: “Բուգենվիլի ինքնավար շրջան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bugenvil muxtar ərazisi”
  • Basque: “Bougainvilleko Eskualde Autonomoa”
  • Belarusian: “Аўтаномны рэгіён Бугенвіль”
  • Belarusian: “Бугенвіль”
  • Bengali: “বুগেনভিল স্বায়ত্তশাসিত অঞ্চল”
  • Bosnian: “Autonomna regija Bougainville”
  • Breton: “Bougainville”
  • Breton: “Rannvro emren Bougainville”
  • Breton: “Rannvro Emren Bougainville”
  • Bulgarian: “Автономен регион Бугенвил”
  • Catalan: “Bougainville”
  • Catalan: “Regió Autònoma de Bougainville”
  • Cebuano: “Bougainville (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Bougainville”
  • Central Bikol: “Awtonomong Rehiyon kan Bougainville”
  • Chinese: “布干维尔”
  • Chinese: “布干维尔自治区”
  • Croatian: “Autonomna regija Bougainville”
  • Croatian: “Bougainville”
  • Czech: “Autonomní území Bougainville”
  • Danish: “Bougainville”
  • Dutch: “Autonome Regio Bougainville”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭtonoma Regiono Bugenvilo”
  • Estonian: “Bougainville’i autonoomne piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Bougainville”
  • Finnish: “Bougainvillen autonominen alue”
  • French: “Bougainville”
  • French: “région autonome de Bougainville”
  • French: “Région autonome de Bougainville”
  • Galician: “Rexión Autónoma de Bougainville”
  • Georgian: “ბუგენვილის ავტონომიური რეგიონი”
  • German: “Bougainville”
  • Greek: “Αυτόνομη Περιφέρεια του Μπουγκαινβίλ”
  • Greek: “Μπουγκαϊνβίλε”
  • Gujarati: “બૌગૈનવિલ”
  • Hebrew: “האזור האוטונומי של בוגנוויל”
  • Hindi: “बोगेनविल”
  • Hungarian: “Bougainville Autonóm Terület”
  • Hungarian: “Bougainville”
  • Icelandic: “Bougainville”
  • Iloko: “Agwaywayas a Rehion ti Bougainville”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Otonom Bougainville”
  • Italian: “regione autonoma di Bougainville”
  • Italian: “Regione autonoma di Bougainville”
  • Japanese: “ブーゲンビル州”
  • Japanese: “ブーゲンビル自治州”
  • Kannada: “ಬೌಗೆನ್ವಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Бугенвиль Автоном регионы”
  • Korean: “부건빌 자치주”
  • Latvian: “Bugenvilas autonomais reģions”
  • Latvian: “Bugenvile”
  • Lithuanian: “Bugenvilio autonominis regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Бугенвил”
  • Malay: “Bougainville”
  • Malay: “Kawasan Berautonomi Bougainville”
  • Marathi: “बोगनविले”
  • Mazanderani: “بوگن ویل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bougainville Chū-tī-khu”
  • Mingrelian: “ბუგენვილიშ ავტონომიური რეგიონი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bougainville (Autonoom Regiuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bougainville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bougainville”
  • Norwegian: “Bougainville”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bougainville”
  • Persian: “استان خودمختار بوگاینویل”
  • Persian: “منطقه خودمختار بوگن‌ویل”
  • Polish: “Bougainville”
  • Portuguese: “Bougainville”
  • Portuguese: “Região Autônoma de Bougainville”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Autonomă Bougainville”
  • Russian: “Автономный регион Бугенвиль”
  • Russian: “Бугенвиль”
  • Serbian: “Аутономна покрајина Богенвил”
  • Sinhala: “බුගන්විල් කලාපය, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
  • Sinhala: “බෝගෙන්විලි”
  • Slovak: “Autonómné územie Bougainville”
  • Slovenian: “Avtonomna regija Bougainville”
  • Spanish: “Bougainville”
  • Spanish: “Región autónoma de Bougainville”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa unaojiendesha wa Bougainville”
  • Swedish: “Bougainville”
  • Swiss German: “Bougainville”
  • Tamil: “போகஇன்வில்லே”
  • Tamil: “போகன்வில் தன்னாட்சிப் பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “బోగన్‌విల్లే”
  • Thai: “เขตปกครองตนเองบูเกนวิลล์”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bogenvil”
  • Turkish: “Bougainville Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Bougainville”
  • Ukrainian: “Автономний регіон Бугенвіль”
  • Ukrainian: “Бугенвіль”
  • Urdu: “بووجاینویلی”
  • Urdu: “خود مختار علاقہ بؤگاینویل”
  • Uzbek: “Autonomous Region of Bougainville”
  • Uzbek: “Bougainville avtonom hududi”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu tự trị Bougainville”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Autonomo nga Rehiyon han Bougainville”
  • Welsh: “Rhanbarth Ymreolaethol Bougainville”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ بوگنولیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “布干维尔自治区”

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