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Bukit Ho Swee fire
The Bukit Ho Swee fire swept through a Singapore squatter settlement on 25 May 1961, burning 100 acres and leaving nearly 16,000 homeless; the rehousing that followed launched Singapore's first large-scale public housing project.
Bukit Jalil
Bukit Jalil is a southern Kuala Lumpur suburb built around the National Sports Complex (1998 Commonwealth Games), Pavilion Bukit Jalil mall, IMU and APU campuses, four LRT Sri Petaling line stations, and a tiered high-rise property market with a RM511 psf residential median.
Bukit Jalil National Stadium
Bukit Jalil National Stadium (Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil, now TM Stadium Nasional) is Malaysia's 85,500-seat national stadium in Kuala Lumpur, the largest in Southeast Asia, opened in 1998 for the Commonwealth Games and home of the national football team.
Bukit Kepong incident
The Bukit Kepong incident was a 1950 attack in which Malayan Communist Party guerrillas besieged and burned a remote police station on the Muar river in Johor, killing 25.
Bukit Rahman Putra
Bukit Rahman Putra (BRP) is a 1,109-acre freehold township in Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia, established 1991 by Land & General and named for Tunku Abdul Rahman; anchored by the 36-hole Kelab Rahman Putra golf club.
Bukit Raya
Bukit Raya (Gunung Bukit Raya), Central Kalimantan, is the highest peak of Indonesian Borneo at about 2,278 m, in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park; distinct from Malaysian and Pekanbaru namesakes.
Bukit Tua Oil and Gas Field
Bukit Tua is an offshore oil and gas field in the Java Sea, about 110 km off East Java, Indonesia, operated by PETRONAS with first oil in 2015.
Bükk Region UNESCO Global Geopark
Bükk Region UNESCO Global Geopark (Bükk-vidék UNESCO Globális Geopark), designated 2024 in northern Hungary: 2,817 km2, 109 municipalities, over 1,100 caves, 300-million-year geological record, managed by Bükk National Park Directorate.
Bukka I
Bukka I (बुक्क) was a Vijayanagara emperor who reigned from 1356 to 1377, succeeding his brother Harihara I, warring with the Bahmani sultanate, and directing the 1371 conquest that destroyed the Madura Sultanate.
Bukka White
Bukka White, born Booker T. Washington White, was an American Delta blues singer and slide guitarist known for "Shake 'Em on Down" and "Fixin' to Die Blues."
Bukkake
Bukkake (ぶっかけ), Japanese "to splash": a cold-noodle dish style and, since 1980s Japanese adult video, a group-ejaculation porn genre; entered English 1984–90, spread West in the late 1990s.
Büklükale
Büklükale is an archaeological mound site in Kırıkkale Province, central Turkey, on the Kızılırmak river, mainly of the Hittite period and excavated by a Japanese team since 2009.
Bukola Saraki
Bukola Saraki (Olubukola Abubakar Saraki), Nigerian doctor, banker, and politician; Governor of Kwara State 2003–2011, Senator for Kwara Central 2011, and President of the Nigerian Senate 2015–2019.
Bukovina (Буковина)
Bukovina (Буковина, Bucovina, Bukowina), historical region in the eastern Carpathian foothills, split today between Ukraine and Romania. Habsburg crown land 1775–1918, united with Romania 1918, northern part annexed by the USSR in 1940.
Bukovinian State Medical University
Bukovinian State Medical University (Буковинський державний медичний університет, BSMU) is a public medical university in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, founded 1944 from the relocated 2nd Kyiv Medical Institute; ranked 5th among Ukrainian medical universities in Top-200 Ukraine 2024.
Bukpyung power station
Bukpyung power station, also known as GS Donghae power station, is a 1,190 MW anthracite coal-fired power station in Donghae, Gangwon, South Korea, opened in 2017.
BUKU Music and Art Project Festival 2016
The BUKU Music and Art Project Festival 2016, also called The BUKU Project, was the fifth edition of New Orleans' EDM and hip-hop festival, held March 11–12.
Buku Sibela
Buku Sibela (Gunung Sibela) is the highest peak of Bacan Island and of North Maluku province, Indonesia, about 2,085-2,111 m with equal prominence, in Gunung Sibela Nature Reserve, a young exhumed metamorphic block complex.
Bul Hanine Oil and Gas Field
Bul Hanine (بو الحنين) is Qatar's largest offshore oil field, producing crude and gas in the Persian Gulf about 120 km east of the coast since 1972.
Bula FC (Fiji)
Bula FC (originally Bula Boys FC) is Fiji's first professional football club, based in Suva and launched by Fiji FA in October 2025 to represent Fiji in the inaugural 2026 OFC Pro League, finishing third.
Bulacan
Bulacan is a province of Central Luzon, Philippines, north of Manila, capital Malolos. 2020 population 3,708,890 (2nd of 81 provinces); site of the 1899 Malolos Republic; largest Central Luzon economy; MRT-7, NSCR, and a planned 200-million-passenger airport.
Bulakan, Bulacan
Bulakan is a coastal municipality in Bulacan province, Philippines; former first provincial capital, founded 1572, 14 barangays, 75,565 people (2015), and site of the New Manila International Airport in Barangay Taliptip.
Bulala invasion of Kanem
The Bulala invasion of Kanem was the late 14th-century campaign in which the Bulala expelled the Sayfawa dynasty from Kanem, forcing its court west of Lake Chad to Bornu.
Bulan
Bulan, also spelled Bolan, was a king of the Khazar Khaganate who abandoned paganism and adopted Judaism, traditionally around 740, known through the Khazar Correspondence.
Buland al-Haidari
Buland al-Haidari (بلند الحيدري) was an Iraqi poet of Kurdish origin, a founder of Arabic free verse, born in 1926 and died in exile in London in 1996.
Buland Darwaza
Buland Darwaza, meaning Lofty Gate, is a monumental gateway at Fatehpur Sikri near Agra, India, built by Emperor Akbar as the southern entrance to the Jama Masjid.
Bulandi (बुलंदी) (2000 film)
Bulandi (बुलंदी), 2000 Hindi action-drama remake of Tamil Nattamai, directed by T. Rama Rao; Anil Kapoor double role, Rekha, Raveena Tandon, Rajinikanth's last Hindi film; box office disaster.
Bulandshahr (district)
Bulandshahr district (जिला बुलन्दशहर), Uttar Pradesh, between the Ganga and Yamuna in the National Capital Region; 4,353 sq km, 3,499,171 people (2011), 7 tehsils, headquarters Bulandshahr, Khurja pottery, Narora atomic power plant.
Bulandshahr (बुलंदशहर)
Bulandshahr (बुलंदशहर), formerly Baran, is a district of Uttar Pradesh between the Ganga and Yamuna, near Delhi in the NCR; 3.5 million people (2011), Khurja pottery, Narora nuclear plant.
Bulandshahr Mound
Bulandshahr Mound (Moti Bazar mound), an ASI-protected Monument of National Importance in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh; site of the old settlement of Baran, excavated by F.S. Growse, yielding Buddhist stupa finials, bricks, a Buddha sculpture, and the Moti Bagh garden.