Bukoba

Bukoba is a town with a population of 144,938, situated in the northwest of on the south-western shores of . It is the capital of the , and the administrative seat for Bukoba Urban District, and is home to Kaitaba Stadium…
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bukoba Airport and Mater Misericordiae Cathedral of Bukoba.

Aerodrome
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is a domestic airport located in the city of Bukoba, the capital of the in northwest . It lies about 1 kilometre from Bukoba's centre on the western shore of .

Church
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is a church.

Bukoba

Latitude
-1.3312° or 1° 19′ 52″ south
Longitude
31.8126° or 31° 48′ 45″ east
Population
145,000
Elevation
1,149 metres (3,770 feet)
IATA airport code
BKZ
United Nations Location Code
TZ BKZ
Open location code
6GCHMR97+G2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 258165920
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
160961
Wiki­data ID
Q654259
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Bukoba” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ቡኮባ”
  • Arabic: “بوكوبا”
  • Asturian: “Bukoba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bukoba”
  • Basque: “Bukoba”
  • Belarusian: “Букоба”
  • Bengali: “বুকুবা”
  • Bengali: “বুকোবা”
  • 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”
  • Galician: “Bukoba”
  • German: “Bukoba”
  • Greek: “Μπουκόμπα”
  • Gujarati: “બુકોબા”
  • Hausa: “Bukoba”
  • Hebrew: “בוקבה”
  • Hindi: “बुकोबा”
  • Icelandic: “Bukoba”
  • Indonesian: “Bukoba”
  • Italian: “Bukoba”
  • Japanese: “ブコバ”
  • Javanese: “Bukoba”
  • Kannada: “ಬುಕೊಬ”
  • Kazakh: “Бухоба”
  • Kirghiz: “Бухоба”
  • Korean: “부코바”
  • Latvian: “Bukoba”
  • Lithuanian: “Bukoba”
  • Malay: “Bukoba”
  • Marathi: “बुकोबा”
  • Moksha: “Букоба”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Bukoba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bukoba”
  • Norwegian: “Bukoba”
  • Oromo: “Bukoba”
  • Panjabi: “بوکوبا”
  • Persian: “بوکوبا”
  • Polish: “Bukoba”
  • Portuguese: “Bukoba”
  • Pushto: “بوکوبا”
  • Romanian: “Bukoba”
  • Russian: “Букоба”
  • Silesian: “Bukoba”
  • Sinhala: “බුකොබා”
  • Somali: “Bukoba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوکوبا”
  • Spanish: “Bukoba”
  • Swahili: “Bukoba Mjini”
  • Swahili: “Bukoba”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Bukoba Mjini”
  • Swedish: “Bukoba”
  • Tajik: “Бухоба”
  • Tamil: “புகோபா”
  • Tatar: “Bukoba”
  • Telugu: “బుకోబా”
  • Thai: “บูโคดา”
  • Turkish: “Bukoba”
  • Ukrainian: “Букоба”
  • Urdu: “بکوبا”
  • Urdu: “بوکوبا”
  • Uzbek: “Bukoba”
  • Vietnamese: “Bukoba”
  • Yoruba: “Bukoba”
  • Zulu: “Bukoba”

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