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Baucau Administrative Post

administrative post in municipality Baucau

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ17517363 ↗
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Baucau, officially Baucau Administrative Post (Portuguese: Posto Administrativo de Baucau, Tetun: Postu administrativu Baukau), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Baucau municipality, Timor-Leste. Its seat or administrative centre is Bahú.

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This entry incorporates text from “Baucau 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.