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Bougainville

Bougainville is the largest island of the archipelago, and an autonomous island region within .
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  • Type: State with 133,000 residents
  • Description: autonomous region of Papua New Guinea
  • Also known as: “AROB”, “Autonomous Region of Bougainville”, “Autonomous Region of Bouganville”, “Bougainville District”, “Kieta District”, “North Solomons”, and “PG-NSB”

Bougainville

Latitude of center
-5.9949° or 5° 59′ 42″ south
Longitude of center
154.9967° or 154° 59′ 48″ east
Population
133,000
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”
  • Bosnian: “Bougainville”
  • Bosnian: “Sjeverni Solomoni”
  • Breton: “Bougainville Province”
  • Breton: “Bougainville”
  • Breton: “Rannvro emren Bougainville”
  • Breton: “Rannvro Emren Bougainville”
  • Bulgarian: “Автономен регион Бугенвил”
  • Bulgarian: “Северни Соломони”
  • Catalan: “Bougainville”
  • Catalan: “Regió Autònoma de Bougainville”
  • Cebuano: “Bougainville (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Bougainville”
  • Central Bikol: “Awtonomong Rehiyon kan Bougainville”
  • Chinese: “Bougainville Chū-tī-khu”
  • Chinese: “布干維爾自治省”
  • 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”
  • Dutch: “PG-NSB”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭtonoma Regiono Bougainville”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭtonoma Regiono Bugenvilo”
  • Esperanto: “Bugenvilo”
  • Esperanto: “Nord-Salomonoj”
  • Estonian: “Bougainville’i autonoomne piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Bougainville”
  • Finnish: “Bougainvillen autonominen alue”
  • French: “Bougainville”
  • French: “Région autonome de Bougainville”
  • Galician: “Rexión Autónoma de Bougainville”
  • Georgian: “ბუგენვილის ავტონომიური რეგიონი”
  • German: “Bougainville-Provinz”
  • German: “Bougainville”
  • German: “North Solomons Province”
  • Greek: “Αυτόνομη Περιφέρεια του Μπουγκαινβίλ”
  • Greek: “Μπουγκαϊνβίλε”
  • Gujarati: “બૌગૈનવિલ”
  • Hebrew: “האזור האוטונומי של בוגנוויל”
  • Hindi: “बोगेनविल का स्वायत्त क्षेत्र”
  • Hindi: “बोगेनविल”
  • Hungarian: “Bougainville Autonóm Terület”
  • Hungarian: “Bougainville”
  • Icelandic: “Bougainville”
  • Iloko: “Agwaywayas a Rehion ti Bougainville”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Otonom Bougainville”
  • Italian: “Provincia di 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”
  • Japanese: “ブーゲンビル自治州政府”
  • Kannada: “ಬೌಗೆನ್ವಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Бугенвиль Автоном регионы”
  • Kazakh: “Бугенвиль”
  • Kazakh: “Солтүстік Соломон аралдары”
  • Korean: “부건빌 자치주”
  • Korean: “부건빌”
  • Korean: “북솔로몬”
  • Latvian: “Bugenvilas autonomais reģions”
  • Latvian: “Bugenvile”
  • Lithuanian: “Bugenvilio autonominis regionas”
  • Lithuanian: “Bugenvilis”
  • 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 بوگاينويل”
  • Persian: “استان خودمختار بوگاینویل”
  • Persian: “استان سليمان شمالي”
  • Persian: “استان سلیمان شمالی”
  • Persian: “سليمان شمالي”
  • Persian: “سلیمان شمالی”
  • Persian: “منطقه خودمختار بوگن‌ویل”
  • Polish: “Bougainville”
  • Portuguese: “Bougainville”
  • Portuguese: “Região Autónoma de Bougainville”
  • Portuguese: “Região Autônoma de Bougainville”
  • Russian: “Автономный регион Бугенвиль”
  • Russian: “АРБ”
  • Russian: “Бугенвиль”
  • Russian: “Республика Мекамуи”
  • Russian: “Северные Соломоновые острова”
  • Serbian: “Аутономна покрајина Богенвил”
  • Serbian: “Аутономна покрајина Бугенвил”
  • Serbian: “Богенвил”
  • Serbian: “Бугенвил”
  • Serbian: “Северна Соломонова Острва”
  • Serbian: “Северни Соломони”
  • Sinhala: “බුගන්විල් කලාපය, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
  • Sinhala: “බෝගෙන්විලි”
  • Slovenian: “Avtonomna regija Bougainville”
  • Slovenian: “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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bougainville”
  • Turkish: “Bougainville Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Bougainville”
  • Ukrainian: “Автономний регіон Бугенвіль”
  • Ukrainian: “Бугенвіль”
  • Urdu: “بووجاینویلی”
  • Uzbek: “Autonomous Region of Bougainville”
  • Vietnamese: “Bougainville”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu tự trị Bougainville”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng 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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