Bukoba
Bukoba is a city with a population of 144,938, situated in the northwest of Tanzania on the south-western shores of Lake Victoria. It is the capital of the Kagera region, and the administrative seat for Bukoba Urban District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Bukoba Airport and Mater Misericordiae Cathedral of Bukoba.
Bukoba Airport
Aerodrome
Bukoba Airport is a domestic airport located in the city of Bukoba, the capital of the Kagera Region in northwest Tanzania. It is adjacent to Lake Victoria.
Mater Misericordiae Cathedral of Bukoba
Church
Photo: Macabe5387, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mater Misericordiae Cathedral of Bukoba is a church.
Bukoba
- Type: City with 145,000 residents
- Description: city in Kagera, Tanzania
- Category: locality
- Location: Bilele, Bukoba Municipal, Kagera, Northwest Tanzania, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-1.3312° or 1° 19′ 52″ southLongitude
31.8126° or 31° 48′ 45″ eastPopulation
145,000Elevation
1,149 metres (3,770 feet)IATA airport code
BKZUnited Nations Location Code
TZ BKZOpen location code
6GCHMR97+G2OpenStreetMap ID
node 258165920OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
160961Wikidata ID
Q654259
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Bukoba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوكوبا”
- Asturian: “Bukoba”
- Basque: “Bukoba”
- Belarusian: “Букоба”
- Bengali: “বুকুবা”
- Bulgarian: “Букоба”
- Catalan: “Bukoba”
- Cebuano: “Bukoba”
- Chinese: “布科巴”
- Croatian: “Bukoba”
- Danish: “Bukoba”
- Dutch: “Buboka”
- Dutch: “Bukoba”
- Esperanto: “Bukoba”
- Esperanto: “Bukobo”
- Estonian: “Bukoba”
- Finnish: “Bukoba”
- French: “Bukoba”
- German: “Bukoba”
- Greek: “Μπουκόμπα”
- Gujarati: “બુકોબા”
- Hebrew: “בוקבה”
- Hindi: “बुकोबा”
- Icelandic: “Bukoba”
- Indonesian: “Bukoba”
- Italian: “Bukoba”
- Japanese: “ブコバ”
- Kannada: “ಬುಕೊಬ”
- Korean: “부코바”
- Latvian: “Bukoba”
- Lithuanian: “Bukoba”
- Malay: “Bukoba”
- Marathi: “बुकोबा”
- Moksha: “Букоба”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bukoba”
- Norwegian: “Bukoba”
- Persian: “بوکوبا”
- Polish: “Bukoba”
- Portuguese: “Bukoba”
- Romanian: “Bukoba”
- Russian: “Букоба”
- Silesian: “Bukoba”
- Sinhala: “බුකොබා”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوکوبا”
- Spanish: “Bukoba”
- Swahili: “Bukoba Mjini”
- Swahili: “Bukoba”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Bukoba Mjini”
- Swedish: “Bukoba”
- Tamil: “புகோபா”
- Telugu: “బుకోబా”
- Thai: “บูโคดา”
- Turkish: “Bukoba”
- Ukrainian: “Букоба”
- Urdu: “بوکوبا”
- Vietnamese: “Bukoba”
- Yoruba: “Bukoba”
- Zulu: “Bukoba”
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