Luba
Luba, previously known as San Carlos, is the second-largest town on Bioko in Equatorial Guinea. It serves as a port for the logging industry, located on the island's western coast, beneath the towering volcanic peaks.- Type: Town with 23,900 residents
- Description: city in Equatorial Guinea
- Also known as: “Ciudad de Luba”, “Lubá”, “Luba, Equatorial Guinea”, “San Carlos”, and “San Carlos de Lubá”
Luba
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Bioko Sur Province, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
3.4598° or 3° 27′ 35″ north
Longitude
8.5544° or 8° 33′ 16″ east
Population
23,900
Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GQ LUB
Open location code
6FMCFH53+WQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Luba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوبا، غينيا الاستوائية”
- Arabic: “لوبا”
- Asturian: “Luba”
- Basque: “Luba”
- Bulgarian: “Луба”
- Catalan: “Luba”
- Cebuano: “Luba”
- Chinese: “卢巴”
- Chinese: “盧巴”
- Croatian: “Luba”
- Danish: “Luba”
- Dutch: “Luba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوبا”
- Finnish: “Luba”
- French: “Luba”
- Galician: “Luba, Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Galician: “Luba”
- Georgian: “ლუბა”
- German: “Luba”
- Hebrew: “לובה”
- Hindi: “लुबा”
- Hungarian: “Luba”
- Italian: “Luba”
- Japanese: “ルバ”
- Korean: “루바”
- Lithuanian: “Luba”
- Northern Frisian: “Luba”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Luba”
- Polish: “Luba”
- Portuguese: “Luba”
- Pushto: “لوبا”
- Romanian: “Luba, Guineea Ecuatorială”
- Russian: “Луба”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Luba”
- Spanish: “Luba”
- Swedish: “Luba”
- Thai: “ลูบา”
- Turkish: “Luba”
- Ukrainian: “Луба (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Луба”
- Urdu: “لوبا، استوائی گنی”
- Waray (Philippines): “Luba, Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Zulu: “Luba, Nkabazwe Gini”
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