Bukoba
Bukoba is a town 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, and is home to Kaitaba Stadium…
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- Type: City with 145,000 residents
- Description: city in Kagera, Tanzania
- Also known as: “Buboka”, “Bukoba Mjini”, and “Wilaya ya Bukoba Mjini”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bukoba Airport and Mater Misericordiae Cathedral of Bukoba.
Bukoba
- Category: locality
- Location: Bilele, Bukoba Municipal, Kagera, Northwest Tanzania, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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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
UN/LOCODE
TZ BKZ
Open location code
6GCHMR97+G2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “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”
- 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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