Kashasha
Sign in to saveKashasha is a ward on the western coast of Lake Victoria in the Muleba District of the Kagera Region, Tanzania, near the border of Uganda. The village is known for having been the locus of the Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962.
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Tanzania
- Located in
- Muleba District
- Population
- 10351
- Area
- 27.97
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Barbro Johansson's House in Kashasha.jpg
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Kashasha is a ward on the western coast of Lake Victoria in the Muleba District of the Kagera Region, Tanzania, near the border of Uganda. The village is known for having been the locus of the Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962.
In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 12,508 people in the ward, from 11,021 in 2012.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kashasha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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