Baubau

Baubau is a city in the province of Southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia. Indonesia treats it as a city (kota) at the regency level, and the figures compiled by City Population count 159,248 inhabitants at the 2020 census, against 136,991 at the 2010 census. GeoNames places Baubau at latitude -5.46330 and longitude 122.60240, about 15 metres above sea level by its digital elevation model, in the Asia/Makassar time zone of the IANA database, which is UTC+8. GeoNames records Baubau as a populated place, so it is not the capital of Southeast Sulawesi. GeoNames carries its own population figure of 161,280. The atlas places it in the South-eastern Asia subregion of Asia.