Bulawayo

Bulawayo is a relaxed, elegant industrial city with wide tree-lined boulevards, in western . Several World Heritage sites, including historic monuments from the precolonial era and national parks, are within an hour's drive from Bulawayo, making it a great tourist destination.
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  • City with 653,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,348 metres (4,423 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code BUQ
  • Description: city in Zimbabwe

Places of Interest

Highlights include Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe and Bulawayo Railway Museum.

Museum
The is located in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Leopold Takawira Avenue.

Museum
is a railway museum located…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bradfield and Makokoba.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Suburb
Makhokhoba is a suburb of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Bulawayo

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Latitude
-20.1561° or 20° 9′ 22″ south
Longitude
28.5887° or 28° 35′ 19″ east
UN/LOCODE
ZW BUQ
Open location code
5GFCRHVQ+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bulawayo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bulawayo”
  • Albanian: “Bulawayo”
  • Amharic: “ቡላዋዮ”
  • Arabic: “بولاوايو”
  • Armenian: “Բուլավայո”
  • Asturian: “Bulawayo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bulavayo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bulawayo”
  • Basque: “Bulawayo”
  • Basque: “Bulawayoko metropolitar probintzia”
  • Bavarian: “Bulawayo”
  • Belarusian: “Булаваё”
  • Belarusian: “Булавая”
  • Bengali: “বুলাওয়ায়ো”
  • Bengali: “বুলাওয়ে”
  • Bengali: “বুলাওয়েও”
  • Bengali: “বুলাওয়ো”
  • Breton: “Bulawayo”
  • Bulgarian: “Булавайо”
  • Bulgarian: “Булавейо”
  • Catalan: “Bulawayo”
  • Cebuano: “Bulawayo (kapital sa lalawigan sa Zimbabwe)”
  • Cebuano: “Bulawayo”
  • Chinese: “布拉瓦約”
  • Chinese: “布拉瓦约”
  • Croatian: “Bulawayo”
  • Czech: “Bulawayo”
  • Danish: “Bulawayo”
  • Dutch: “Bulawayo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولاوايو”
  • Esperanto: “Bulawayo”
  • Estonian: “Bulawayo”
  • Finnish: “Bulawayo”
  • French: “Bulawayo”
  • Georgian: “ბულავაიო”
  • German: “Bulawayo”
  • German: “ZW-BU”
  • Greek: “Μπουλαουάγιο”
  • Gujarati: “બુલાવાયો”
  • Hausa: “Bulawayo”
  • Hebrew: “בולאוואיו”
  • Hindi: “बुलावायो”
  • Hindi: “बुलावेयो”
  • Hungarian: “Bulawayo”
  • Ido: “Bulawayo”
  • Indonesian: “Bulawayo”
  • Interlingue: “Bulawayo”
  • Irish: “Bulawayo”
  • Italian: “Bulawayo”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Bulawayo”
  • Japanese: “ブラワーヨ”
  • Japanese: “ブラワヨ”
  • Javanese: “Bulawayo”
  • Kannada: “ಬುಲವೇಯೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Булавайо”
  • Kirghiz: “Булавайо”
  • Korean: “불라와요”
  • Latvian: “Bulavajo”
  • Lithuanian: “Bulavajas”
  • Low German: “Bulawayo”
  • Malay: “Bulawayo”
  • Malayalam: “ബുലവായോ”
  • Marathi: “बुलावायो”
  • Moksha: “Булавайо”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bulawayo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bulawayo”
  • Norwegian: “Bulawayo”
  • Oromo: “Bulawayo”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਲਾਵਾਇਓ”
  • Persian: “بولاوایو”
  • Persian: “بولاویو”
  • Polish: “Bulawayo”
  • Portuguese: “Bulavaio”
  • Portuguese: “Bulawayo”
  • Pushto: “بولاوايو”
  • Romanian: “Bulawayo”
  • Russian: “Булавайо”
  • Scots: “Bulawayo”
  • Serbian: “Bulavajo”
  • Serbian: “Bulawayo”
  • Serbian: “Булавајо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bulavajo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bulawayo”
  • Shona: “Bulawayo”
  • Silesian: “Bulawayo”
  • Sinhala: “බුලවායෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Bulawayo”
  • Somali: “Bulawayo”
  • Spanish: “Bulawayo”
  • Swahili: “Bulawayo”
  • Swedish: “Bulawayo”
  • Tajik: “Булавайо”
  • Tamil: “புலவாயோ”
  • Tatar: “Булавайо”
  • Telugu: “బులావాయో”
  • Thai: “บูลาวาโย”
  • Turkish: “Bulawayo”
  • Ukrainian: “Булавайо”
  • Urdu: “بلاویو”
  • Urdu: “بولاوایو”
  • Uzbek: “Bulavayo”
  • Uzbek: “Bulawayo”
  • Venetian: “Bulawayo”
  • Vietnamese: “Bulawayo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bulawayo”
  • Welsh: “Bulawayo”
  • Western Mari: “Булавайо”
  • Wu Chinese: “布拉瓦约”
  • Zulu: “Bulawayo, Zimbabwe”

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