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The town is approximately 85 kilometres (53 mi), by road, north of Mbarara, the largest city in the Ankole sub-region. [1] It is about 275 kilometres (171 mi), by road, southwest of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda. [2]
Ntoroko District is one of the two Ugandan districts west of the Rwenzori Mountains, the other being Bundibugyo District.The Ntoroko District is bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west and north, separated by the winding Semuliki River, has a maritime boundary with two Bunyoro districts; Kikuube District to the north-north-east and Kagadi District to the north-east.
On 11 July 2010, suicide bombings were carried out against crowds watching a screening of 2010 FIFA World Cup Final match during the World Cup at two locations in Kampala. The attacks killed 74 people and wounded 70 more. Al-Shabaab, a jihadist Somali terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the attacks as retaliation for Ugandan support for ...
As of 1 July 2020, Uganda is divided into 135 districts plus the capital city of Kampala, which are grouped into four geographic regions. [1] [2] Since 2005, the Ugandan government has been in the process of dividing districts into smaller units.
In 1912, Kampala Township received its first land-use plan and had a European and Asian population of 2,850. [23] In 1922, Kampala's oldest university, Makerere, was founded as the Uganda Technical College at the present Makerere Hill and initially offered carpentry, building construction, mechanics, arts, education, agriculture, and medicine.
The town of Kakumiro, the location of the district headquarters, is approximately 182 kilometres (113 mi), by road, north-west of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. [4] This location is approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi), by road, south of Hoima , the nearest large town.
Katanga slum stretches about 1.5 kilometres from Wandegeya to Kubiri, near Bwaise. Katanga is divided into two administrative Local Council 1 zone, "Busia zone" and "Kimwanyi zone".
The district headquarters at Mbarara, the largest city in the sub-region, are located approximately 290 kilometres (180 mi), by road, southwest of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. [2] The coordinates of the district are:00 36S, 30 36E.