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Buwenge
Sign in to saveBuwenge is a town in the Eastern Region of Uganda. It was proposed as the headquarters of Jinja District in 2009 when local district leaders were lobbying government to grant Jinja city status. However, when the district headquarters were relocated 10 years later, Kagoma, a smaller community in Buwenge sub-county was selected as the new district headquarters.
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Place details
- Locality
- Bukofu Bukumbi II
- Region
- Jinja
- Country
- Uganda
- Population
- 24,200
- Timezone
- Africa/Kampala
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Uganda
- Located in
- Jinja District
- Elevation
- 1080
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buwenge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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