Buru Island

Buru is an island in . It is known for the cajeput tree plantation and also has become the national rice granary in Maluku.
  • Island
  • …has 124,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 529 metres (1,736 feet)
  • Description: island in Maluku Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as
    “Boeroe”
    “Buru”
    “Pulau Buru”

Buru Island

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Latitude
-3.4° or 3° 24′ south
Longitude
126.65° or 126° 39′ east
Open location code
6Q88HJXX+XX
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Buru Island” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Buru”
  • Afrikaans: “Buru”
  • Arabic: “بورو”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة بورو”
  • Aragonese: “Buru”
  • Arpitan: “Buru”
  • Asturian: “Buru”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buru”
  • Balinese: “Nusa Buru”
  • Basque: “Buru”
  • Bavarian: “Buru”
  • Belarusian: “Буру”
  • Breton: “Buru”
  • Bulgarian: “Буру”
  • Catalan: “Buru”
  • Cebuano: “Pulau Buru”
  • Chinese: “布魯島”
  • Chinese: “布鲁岛”
  • Corsican: “Buru”
  • Croatian: “Buru”
  • Czech: “Buru”
  • Danish: “Buru”
  • Dutch: “Boeroe”
  • Dutch: “Buru”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره بورو”
  • Esperanto: “Buruo”
  • Estonian: “Boeroe”
  • Estonian: “Buru saar”
  • Estonian: “Buru”
  • Estonian: “Hutan Kadali”
  • Finnish: “Buru”
  • French: “Buru”
  • Friulian: “Buru”
  • Galician: “Buru”
  • Georgian: “ბურუ”
  • German: “Buru”
  • Greek: “Μπούρου”
  • Hebrew: “בורו”
  • Hindi: “बूरू द्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Buru”
  • Icelandic: “Buru”
  • Ido: “Buru”
  • Igbo: “Buru Island”
  • Indonesian: “Buru”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Buru”
  • Interlingua: “Buru”
  • Interlingue: “Buru”
  • Irish: “Buru”
  • Italian: “Buru”
  • Japanese: “ブル島”
  • Javanese: “Pulo Buru”
  • Jèrriais: “Buru”
  • Kazakh: “Буру”
  • Kongo: “Buru”
  • Korean: “부루섬”
  • Latvian: “Buru”
  • Ligurian: “Buru”
  • Limburgan: “Buru”
  • Lithuanian: “Buru”
  • Low German: “Buru”
  • Luxembourgish: “Buru”
  • Malagasy: “Buru”
  • Malay: “Buru”
  • Malay: “Pulau Buru”
  • Malayalam: “ബുരു”
  • Minangkabau: “Buru”
  • Neapolitan: “Buru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buru”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buru”
  • Norwegian: “Buru”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Buru”
  • Persian: “بورو (جزیره)”
  • Persian: “بورو”
  • Picard: “Buru”
  • Piemontese: “Buru”
  • Polish: “Buru”
  • Portuguese: “Buru”
  • Romanian: “Buru”
  • Romansh: “Buru”
  • Russian: “Буру”
  • Sardinian: “Buru”
  • Scots: “Buru”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Buru”
  • Serbian: “Buru”
  • Serbian: “Буру”
  • Sicilian: “Buru”
  • Slovak: “Buru”
  • Slovenian: “Buru”
  • Spanish: “Buru”
  • Sundanese: “Buru”
  • Swahili: “Buru”
  • Swedish: “Buru”
  • Swiss German: “Buru”
  • Tamil: “புரு தீவு”
  • Tamil: “புரு”
  • Thai: “เกาะบูรู”
  • Ukrainian: “Буру”
  • Urdu: “بورو جزیرہ”
  • Venetian: “Buru”
  • Vietnamese: “Buru”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Buru”
  • Vlaams: “Buru”
  • Volapük: “Buru”
  • Walloon: “Buru”
  • Welsh: “Buru”
  • Western Mari: “Буру”
  • Wolof: “Buru”
  • Wu Chinese: “布魯島”
  • Yue Chinese: “布魯島”
  • Zulu: “Buru”

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