Cameroon
Coastal Cameroon
South-West Region

Buea

Buea is a city in . It was the seat of German Cameroon in the beginning of the 20th century and still has some colonial buildings of interest. The city is at the foot of the active volcano Cameroon Mountain.
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Buea

Latitude
4.1568° or 4° 9′ 24″ north
Longitude
9.2316° or 9° 13′ 54″ east
Population
1,330,000
Elevation
859 metres (2,818 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CM BUA
Open location code
6FPF564J+PJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 331130782
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2233410
Wiki­data ID
Q312209
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Buea” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بويا”
  • Armenian: “Բուեա”
  • Asturian: “Buea”
  • Basque: “Buea”
  • Belarusian: “Буэа”
  • Bengali: “বুইয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Буеа”
  • Cebuano: “Buea”
  • Chinese: “Buéa”
  • Chinese: “布埃亚”
  • Chinese: “布埃亞”
  • Croatian: “Buea”
  • Croatian: “Buéa”
  • Czech: “Buea”
  • Danish: “Buea”
  • Danish: “Buéa”
  • Dutch: “Buea”
  • Dutch: “Buéa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بويا”
  • Esperanto: “Buea”
  • Estonian: “Buea”
  • Finnish: “Buea”
  • French: “Buea”
  • French: “Buéa”
  • Galician: “Buea”
  • German: “Buea”
  • German: “Buéa”
  • German: “Buëa”
  • Greek: “Μπουέα”
  • Gujarati: “બુએઆ”
  • Hebrew: “בואאה”
  • Hindi: “बुए”
  • Hungarian: “Buea”
  • Indonesian: “Buea”
  • Irish: “Buea”
  • Italian: “Buea”
  • Italian: “Buéa”
  • Japanese: “ブエア”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಯೂಯಾ”
  • Korean: “부에아”
  • Latvian: “Buea”
  • Lithuanian: “Buea”
  • Lithuanian: “Buėja”
  • Macedonian: “Буеја”
  • Malay: “Buéa”
  • Marathi: “बुएआ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Buéa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Buéa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buea”
  • Norwegian: “Buea”
  • Persian: “بوئا”
  • Polish: “Buea”
  • Polish: “Buéa”
  • Portuguese: “Buea”
  • Portuguese: “Buéa”
  • Romanian: “Buea”
  • Romanian: “Buéa”
  • Russian: “Буэа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Buéa”
  • Shona: “Buea”
  • Sinhala: “බුඑයා”
  • Slovenian: “Buea”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوئا”
  • Spanish: “Buea”
  • Spanish: “Buéa”
  • Swahili: “Buea”
  • Swedish: “Buea”
  • Swedish: “Buéa”
  • Tachawit: “Buea”
  • Tamil: “பூஆ”
  • Telugu: “బుయే”
  • Thai: “บิว”
  • Turkish: “Buea”
  • Ukrainian: “Буеа”
  • Urdu: “بوئیا”
  • Venetian: “Buéa”
  • Vietnamese: “Buea”

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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 “Buea”. Photo: Leuwec, CC BY-SA 4.0.