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.
  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Maluku Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: Boeroe”, “Buru”, and “Pulau Buru

Buru Island

Latitude
-3.4° or 3° 24′ south
Longitude
126.65° or 126° 39′ east
Population
124,000
Elevation
529 metres (1,736 feet)
Open location code
6Q88HJXX+XX
Geo­Names ID
1647546
Wiki­data ID
Q271030
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Satellite Map

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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: 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
  • 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
  • Narom: 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
  • 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
  • Boeroe
  • Buru
  • Pulau Buru

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