Buna may refer to:

Places

Buna, Mostar Buna (Serbian Cyrillic: Буна) is a populated settlement at the confluence of the Buna river and Neretva river some 10 km downstream the Neretva and south of Mostar, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The famous source of the ...

, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the confluence of the Buna and Neretva rivers *

Buna, Kenya Buna is a small town and Sub-County in Wajir County, situated in the North Eastern Province in Kenya. Nearby towns and places include Ajao and Bute Helu. History Buna historically is remembered as the deepest point of penetration by the Ital ...

, a town in Wajir County * Buna, Ivory Coast, a town in Zanzan District *

Buna, Papua New Guinea Buna is a village in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. It was the site in part, of the Battle of Buna–Gona during World War II, when it constituted a variety of native huts and a handful of houses with an airstrip. Buna was the trailhead to the Ko ...

, a village in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea **

Buna Airfield Buna Airfield was an aerodrome located near Buna, Papua New Guinea. Built as an emergency landing ground, it was extended during the Second World War by the Imperial Japanese. A new runway was under construction until both runways were neutralized ...

, an aerodrome located near Buna, Papua New Guinea *

Buna, Texas Buna ( ) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jasper County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,137 at the 2020 census. History The Beaumont Lumber Company mill in southern Jasper County was first called ...

, a census-designated place in Jasper County *

Buna concentration camp Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (''Arbeitslager'') run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942–1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existe ...

, a Nazi concentration camp run during WWII

Rivers and other waterbodies

Buna (Adriatic Sea) The Buna () river, also known as Bojana ( cnr-Cyrl, Бојана), is a river in Albania and Montenegro which flows into the Adriatic Sea. An outflow of Lake Skadar measured from the source of the lake's longest tributary, the Morača River, Mor ...

, a river in Albania and Montenegro (known as ''Bojana'' in Montenegro) *

Buna (Neretva) The Buna ( sr-Cyrl, Буна) is a short river in Bosnia and Herzegovina; it is a left-bank tributary of the Neretva. Its source, Vrelo Bune (''Buna Spring''), is a strong karstic spring located near the village of Blagaj, southeast of Mostar. ...

, a Neretva tributary in Bosnia and Herzegovina *

Buna Bay Buna Bay is a bay and port on the southeast coast of Papua New Guinea. An important shipping port, it was developed for the purpose of transporting agricultural products overseas. The Sangara, Papua New Guinea, Sangara plantations of coffee, natura ...

, a bay and port of Papua New Guinea

Languages

* Buna language, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea *

Mbum language Mbum Proper (also Mboum, Buna, Mboumtiba and Wuna) is a Adamawa–Ubangi language of Central Africa. It is spoken by about people in Cameroon and the Central African Republic. History The Mbum language is spoken by the Mbum people who inhabit ...

or Buna language, an Adamawa language of Cameroon

Rubber

Buna rubber Polybutadiene utadiene rubber, BRis a synthetic rubber. It offers high elasticity, high resistance to wear, good strength even without fillers, and excellent abrasion resistance when filled and vulcanized. "Polybutadiene" is a collective name fo ...

, tradename for Polybutadiene, a synthetic rubber *

Buna Werke Schkopau Buna Werke Schkopau were a chemical company specialising in the production of polymer materials such as plastics and artificial rubber. The name BUNA is derived from the technology of polymerising butadiene with sodium (chemical symbol: Na) as a c ...

, a former IG Farben synthetic rubber plant near Halle (Saale), Germany, later *

Monowitz Buna Werke Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (''Arbeitslager'') run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942–1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existe ...

, a former IG Farben synthetic rubber plant with an attached Nazi German labor camp near Oswiecim, Poland

Ships

* HMAS ''Buna'' (L 132), a ''Balikpapan''-class heavy landing craft operated by the Royal Australian Navy * JDS ''Buna'' (PF-294), a ''Tacoma''-class frigate operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

People

Buna Lawrie Coloured Stone is an Aboriginal Australian band whose members originate from the Koonibba Mission, west of Ceduna, South Australia. They first became known for their 1984 single, "Black Boy". The band performs using guitar, bass, drums, and A ...

, an Australian Aboriginal musician

Other uses

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Buna maflat The Habesha coffee ceremony is a core cultural custom in Ethiopia and Eritrea. There is a routine of serving coffee daily, mainly for the purpose of getting together with relatives, neighbors, or other visitors. If coffee is politely declined, the ...

'', an Ethiopian coffee ceremony *

Buna (payment system) Buna, known until 2020 as the Arab Regional Payment System (ARPS), is a multinational financial market infrastructure that allows payment versus payment (PvP) settlement of transactions in currencies of the Middle East and North Africa region. It ...

, a project of the Arab Monetary Fund *

HD 16175 HD 16175 is a 7th magnitude G-type star with temperature about located away in the Andromeda constellation. This star is only visible through binoculars or better equipment; it is also 3.3 times more luminous, is 1.34 times more mass ...

or Buna, a star * ''

Fagus crenata ''Fagus crenata'', known as Siebold's beech, or Japanese beech, is a species of deciduous tree in the family Fagaceae. Distribution and habitat It is endemic to Japan, where it is widespread and often one of the dominant trees of Japan's decidu ...

'' or buna, a deciduous tree of the beech family * '' Sac de gemecs'' (Andorran: ''Buna''), a type of bagpipe in Catalonia