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Balibo Administrative Post

administrative division of East Timor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ18335790 ↗
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Balibo, officially Balibo Administrative Post (Portuguese: Posto Administrativo de Balibo or Balibó, Tetun: Postu administrativu Balibó), is an administrative post (and was formerly a sub-district) in Bobonaro municipality, East Timor. Its seat or administrative centre is the town of Balibo.

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This entry incorporates text from “Balibo Administrative Post” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.