Bowen
Bowen is a town on the coast in Queensland. Situated right on the Great Barrier Reef, and surrounded by some of the best beaches in Queensland, Bowen is widely regarded as one of the best kept secrets of the region.
- Type: Town with 9,610 residents
- Description: city in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Bowen, queensland”, “Bowen, Queensland”, “Bowen, Queensland, Australia”, “ボーエン (クイーンズランド州)”, and “寶雲”
Bowen
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Whitsunday Region, Central Queensland, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-20.0121° or 20° 0′ 44″ south
Longitude
148.2463° or 148° 14′ 47″ east
Population
9,610
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
ZBO
UN/LOCODE
AU ZBO
Open location code
5RFCX6QW+5G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Bowen” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቦዌን”
- Arabic: “بوين”
- Asturian: “Bowen”
- Azerbaijani: “Bouen”
- Basque: “Bowen (Queensland)”
- Basque: “Bowen”
- Bengali: “বোয়েন”
- Cebuano: “Bowen (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Bowen”
- Central Kurdish: “بۆوین”
- Chinese: “鮑恩”
- Chinese: “鲍恩”
- Dutch: “Bowen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوين”
- French: “Bowen”
- German: “Bowen”
- Hausa: “Bowen”
- Hindi: “बोवेन”
- Hungarian: “Bowen”
- Indonesian: “Bowen”
- Italian: “Bowen”
- Japanese: “ボーウェン”
- Japanese: “ボーエン (オーストラリア)”
- Javanese: “Bowen”
- Kazakh: “Бауэн”
- Kirghiz: “Бауэн”
- Malagasy: “Bowen”
- Malay: “Bowen”
- Oromo: “Bowen”
- Panjabi: “ਬੋਵੇਨ”
- Persian: “بوئن”
- Persian: “بوون”
- Polish: “Bowen”
- Portuguese: “Bowen”
- Pushto: “بوين”
- Romanian: “Bowen, Queensland”
- Romanian: “Bowen”
- Russian: “Бауэн”
- Slovenian: “Bowen”
- Somali: “Bowen”
- Spanish: “Bowen”
- Swahili: “Bowen”
- Swedish: “Bowen (regionhuvudort)”
- Swedish: “Bowen, Queensland”
- Tajik: “Бауэн”
- Tatar: “Бауэн”
- Turkish: “Bowen”
- Ukrainian: “Боуен (Квінсленд)”
- Ukrainian: “Боуен”
- Urdu: “بوئن”
- Urdu: “بوون، کوئینز لینڈ”
- Uzbek: “Bouen”
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