Buikwe District
Buikwe
Njeru Town Council

Njeru

Njeru is a town in , in the of . It is the largest town in the district. It is mainly a residential town. However, it hosts industries such as East African Packaging Solutions Limited, a manufacturer of paper packaging supplies, Nile Breweries Limited, a subsidiary of AB InBev and Nyanza Textile Industries Limited, a textile manufacturer.
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  • Type: City with 179,000 residents
  • Description: town in Buikwe District, Central Region of Uganda.
  • Also known as: “Daru”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station and Owen Falls.

Dam
Photo: Fredrick Onyango, CC BY 2.0.
Nalubaale Power Station, formerly known as Owen Falls Dam, is a hydroelectric power station across the near its source at in . Nalubaale is the Luganda name for Lake Victoria.

Dam
The was a waterfall on the in near the city of Jinja. The falls, together with the nearby Ripon Falls, were submerged in 1954 with the completion of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jinja and Buwenda.

Photo: Bernard DUPONT, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a city of 300,000 people in . The city is at the source of the Nile, and in Uganda more famously the source of Nile Beer. This is a popular destination for backpackers for its white water rafting.

Village
is a small village in located in the district, close to the town of .

Village
is an urban division of one of the municipalities in , in the of . Division is one of the three divisions of the city of Njeru. The other two divisions are Wakisi Division and Njeru Division.

Njeru

Latitude
0.4307° or 0° 25′ 51″ north
Longitude
33.1504° or 33° 9′ 1″ east
Population
179,000
Elevation
1,152 metres (3,780 feet)
Open location code
6GGMC5J2+74
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2229121881
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
227812
Wiki­data ID
Q1994275
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Njeru” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نجيرو”
  • Bengali: “নেজেরু”
  • Cebuano: “Njeru”
  • Chinese: “恩傑魯”
  • Chinese: “恩杰魯”
  • Chinese: “恩杰鲁”
  • Danish: “Njeru”
  • Dutch: “Njeru”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نجيرو”
  • Finnish: “Njeru”
  • French: “Njeru”
  • Fulah: “Njeru”
  • Ganda: “Njeru”
  • German: “Njeru”
  • Greek: “Ντζέρου”
  • Gujarati: “નજરૂ”
  • Hindi: “येरु”
  • Indonesian: “Njeru”
  • Irish: “Njeru”
  • Italian: “Njeru”
  • Japanese: “ネル”
  • Japanese: “ンジェル”
  • Kannada: “ಎನ್ಜೆರು”
  • Korean: “네루”
  • Latvian: “Ndžeru”
  • Lithuanian: “Ndžeru”
  • Malay: “Njeru”
  • Marathi: “नजरु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Njeru”
  • Polish: “Njeru”
  • Portuguese: “Njeru”
  • Russian: “Нджеру”
  • Sinhala: “එන්ජේරු”
  • Spanish: “Njeru”
  • Swahili: “Njeru”
  • Swedish: “Njeru”
  • Tamil: “ன்ஜெரு”
  • Telugu: “నఁజేరు”
  • Thai: “นเจรู”
  • Turkish: “Njeru”
  • Ukrainian: “Нджеру”
  • Urdu: “نجیرو”
  • Vietnamese: “Njeru”
  • Zulu: “Njeru”

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