Bacău

Bacău is a city in eastern in the region of and had a population of 136,087 as of 2021. The municipality of Bacău covers an area of ​​43 km² and is at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, and on the Bistrița River.
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  • Type: City with 144,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the county of Bacău, Romania
  • Also known as: “Ad Bacum”, “Bacau”, “Bačau”, “Bacov”, “Bakėjus”, “Bakeu şəhəri”, “Bakeva”, “Bako”, “municipiul Bacău”, “باکاو”, “बकाऊ”, “বকৌ”, “பாகவு”, and “บาเคา”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Bacovia Theather and Municipal Stadium.

Theater building
Photo: Andrei Lilian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theater building.

Stadium
Photo: CristianChirita, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bacău is a multi-use in Bacău.

Castle
Photo: Rakoon, CC0.
is a castle.

Bacău

Latitude
46.556° or 46° 33′ 22″ north
Longitude
26.9154° or 26° 54′ 55″ east
Population
144,000
Elevation
165 metres (541 feet)
IATA airport code
BCM
UN/LOCODE
RO BCM
Open location code
8GR8HW48+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1308825513
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
685948
Wiki­data ID
Q10737004
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Bacău” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bacău”
  • Albanian: “Bacău”
  • Albanian: “Bakau”
  • Arabic: “باكاو”
  • Armenian: “Բակեու”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bakeu”
  • Basque: “Bacău”
  • Belarusian: “Бакэу”
  • Belarusian: “Бакэў”
  • Bengali: “বাকাউ”
  • Bulgarian: “Бакъу”
  • Catalan: “Bacău”
  • Cebuano: “Municipiul Bacău”
  • Chinese: “巴克乌”
  • Chinese: “巴克烏”
  • Croatian: “Bacău”
  • Czech: “Bacău”
  • Danish: “Bacău”
  • Dutch: “Bacău”
  • Esperanto: “Bacău”
  • Estonian: “Bacău”
  • Finnish: “Bacău”
  • French: “Bacău”
  • Galician: “Bacău”
  • Georgian: “ბაკეუ”
  • German: “Bacău”
  • German: “Barchau”
  • Greek: “Μπακάου”
  • Gujarati: “બાકાઉ”
  • Hebrew: “בקאו”
  • Hindi: “बाकौ”
  • Hungarian: “Bákó”
  • Indonesian: “Bacău”
  • Interlingue: “Bacău”
  • Irish: “Bacău”
  • Italian: “Bacău”
  • Japanese: “バカウ”
  • Jèrriais: “Bacău”
  • Kannada: “ಬಕೌ”
  • Korean: “바커우”
  • Ladino: “Bacău”
  • Latin: “Bacovia”
  • Latvian: “Bakeu”
  • Lithuanian: “Bakeu”
  • Lombard: “Bacău”
  • Macedonian: “Бакау”
  • Malay: “Bacău”
  • Marathi: “बाकाउ”
  • Minangkabau: “Bacău”
  • Mongolian: “Бакау хот”
  • Mongolian: “Бакэу”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bacău”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bacău”
  • Norwegian: “Bacău”
  • Persian: “باکائو”
  • Persian: “بکو”
  • Piemontese: “Bacău”
  • Polish: “Bacău”
  • Polish: “Baków”
  • Portuguese: “Bacău”
  • Romanian: “Bacău”
  • Russian: “Бакэу”
  • Scots: “Bacău”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bacău”
  • Serbian: “Bakau”
  • Serbian: “Бакау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bacău”
  • Sinhala: “බකෞ”
  • Slovak: “Bacău”
  • Slovenian: “Bacău”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باکائو”
  • Spanish: “Bacău”
  • Swedish: “Bacău”
  • Tajik: “Bakeu”
  • Tajik: “Бакэу”
  • Tamil: “பாக்காவு”
  • Tatar: “Бакыу”
  • Telugu: “బాకావ్”
  • Thai: “บาเกิว”
  • Turkish: “Baka”
  • Turkish: “Bakio”
  • Ukrainian: “Бакеу”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bacău”
  • Urdu: “باکاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Bacău”
  • Venetian: “Bacău”
  • Vietnamese: “Bacau”
  • Vietnamese: “Bacău”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bacău”
  • Western Panjabi: “باکیؤ”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴克乌”
  • “Bacău”

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