Buka
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Buka can refer to:
- Buka, Papua New GuineaBuka, Papua New GuineaBuka is situated on Buka Island, Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. It has been the capital of the province during the Bougainville civil war...
, the war capital of Bougainville ProvinceBougainville ProvinceThe Autonomous Region of Bougainville, previously known as North Solomons, is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea. The largest island is Bougainville Island , and the province also includes the island of Buka and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets...
. - Buka IslandBuka IslandBuka Island is the second largest island in the Papua New Guinean province of Bougainville.- History :Buka was first occupied by humans in paleolithic times, some 30,000 years ago...
is the second largest island in the Papua New GuineaPapua New GuineaPapua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
n province of BougainvilleBougainville ProvinceThe Autonomous Region of Bougainville, previously known as North Solomons, is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea. The largest island is Bougainville Island , and the province also includes the island of Buka and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets...
. - Buka EntertainmentBuka EntertainmentBuka Entertainment is a Russian software development and distribution company founded in 1993 in Moscow with an additional six branch offices across Russia, located in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Samara and Nizhniy Novgorod...
, a computer game publisher - Buka (music)Buka (music)The buka is the short introduction to pieces of gamelan. It is also called the bubuka or bubuka opaq-opaq....
, the opening of a gamelan composition - Buká is a town in the Tashkent Province of UzbekistanUzbekistanUzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
. - Buka cloakBuka cloakBuka, or Boka, is the name for the cloak traditionally worn by Noongar people, the Indigenous people of south-western Australia.Unlike in the south-east, where people such as Yorta Yorta wore possum-skin cloaks, the Noongars made use of the pelt of the kangaroo.While in the south east, there was a...
, Noongar South West Western Australian indigenous language word describing usually kangaroo skin cloak worn draped over one shoulder. - Buka, Pomeranian VoivodeshipBuka, Pomeranian VoivodeshipBuka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Debrzno, within Człuchów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately east of Debrzno, south of Człuchów, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk....
(north Poland)