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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,610 residents
- Description: city in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Bowen, Queensland” and “Bowen, Queensland, Australia”
Bowen
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Whitsunday Region, Central Queensland, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-20.0121° or 20° 0′ 44″ southLongitude
148.2463° or 148° 14′ 47″ eastPopulation
9,610Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
ZBOUnited Nations Location Code
AU ZBOOpen location code
5RFCX6QW+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 1875557671OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2174444Wikidata ID
Q895407
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Bowen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوين”
- Asturian: “Bowen”
- Basque: “Bowen (Queensland)”
- Basque: “Bowen”
- Cebuano: “Bowen (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Bowen”
- Central Kurdish: “بۆوین”
- Chinese: “寶雲”
- Chinese: “鮑恩”
- Chinese: “鲍恩”
- Dutch: “Bowen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوين”
- French: “Bowen”
- German: “Bowen”
- Hungarian: “Bowen”
- Italian: “Bowen”
- Japanese: “ボーエン (オーストラリア)”
- Japanese: “ボーエン (クイーンズランド州)”
- Persian: “بوون”
- Polish: “Bowen”
- Portuguese: “Bowen”
- Romanian: “Bowen, queensland”
- Romanian: “Bowen, Queensland”
- Romanian: “Bowen”
- Slovenian: “Bowen”
- Swedish: “Bowen (regionhuvudort)”
- Swedish: “Bowen, Queensland”
- Ukrainian: “Боуен (Квінсленд)”
- Ukrainian: “Боуен”
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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 “Bowen”. Photo: Rabs003, CC BY-SA 4.0.