Busia
Busia is a border town in Uganda and Kenya. Legally, there is a Busia, Uganda, and an adjacent Busia, Kenya.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 64,900 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Busia Municipality”, “Busia, Uganda”, and “Busla”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Busia.
Busia
Town
Photo: LutzBruno, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Busia is a town in Kenya. It is the capital and largest town of Busia County.
Busia
- Categories: human settlement, border city, municipality of Uganda, and locality
- Location: Samia-Bugwe, Busia District, Eastern Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.4676° or 0° 28′ 3″ northLongitude
34.0905° or 34° 5′ 26″ eastPopulation
64,900Elevation
1,219 metres (3,999 feet)United Nations Location Code
UG BUSOpen location code
6GGPF39R+25OpenStreetMap ID
node 1429946815OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Busia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوسيا”
- Bengali: “বুসিয়া”
- Cebuano: “Busia (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Busia”
- Chinese: “卜思尔”
- Chinese: “布西亞”
- Danish: “Busia”
- Dutch: “Busia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوسيا”
- Finnish: “Busia”
- French: “Busia”
- Ganda: “Busia, Yuganda”
- Ganda: “Busia”
- German: “Busia”
- Greek: “Μπούσια”
- Gujarati: “બુસિયા”
- Hindi: “बुसिया”
- Indonesian: “Busia”
- Irish: “Busia”
- Italian: “Busia”
- Japanese: “ブシア”
- Kannada: “ಬುಷಿಯಾ”
- Korean: “부시아”
- Latvian: “Busija”
- Lithuanian: “Busija”
- Malay: “Busia”
- Marathi: “बुसीया”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Busia”
- Polish: “Busia”
- Portuguese: “Busia”
- Romanian: “Busia, Uganda”
- Romanian: “Busia”
- Russian: “Бусиа”
- Sinhala: “බසියා”
- Spanish: “Busia”
- Swahili: “Busia, Uganda”
- Swahili: “Busia”
- Swedish: “Busia, Uganda”
- Swedish: “Busia”
- Tagalog: “Busia, Uganda”
- Tagalog: “Busia”
- Tamil: “பூசிய”
- Telugu: “బుసియా”
- Thai: “บูเซีย”
- Turkish: “Busia”
- Ukrainian: “Бусіа”
- Urdu: “بوسیا، یوگنڈا”
- Urdu: “بوسیا”
- Vietnamese: “Busia”
- Zulu: “Busia, Yuganda”
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