Koboko District
Koboko County
Koboko Town Council

Koboko

Koboko is a town in of . It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial centre of . Koboko is also the hometown of former dictator Idi Amin who ruled from 1971 to 1979.
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  • Type: Town with 64,500 residents
  • Description: place in Northern Region, Uganda
  • Also known as: “Kaboko”

Koboko

Latitude
3.4097° or 3° 24′ 35″ north
Longitude
30.9603° or 30° 57′ 37″ east
Population
64,500
Elevation
1,234 metres (4,049 feet)
United Nations Location Code
UG KOB
Open location code
6GMGCX56+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1157841131
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
230725
Wiki­data ID
Q2391998
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Zulu—“Koboko” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Կոբոկո”
  • Belarusian: “Кабака”
  • Bulgarian: “Кобоко”
  • Catalan: “Koboko”
  • Cebuano: “Koboko”
  • Chinese: “科博科”
  • Danish: “Koboko”
  • Dutch: “Koboko”
  • French: “Koboko”
  • German: “Koboko”
  • Greek: “Κομπόκο”
  • Hebrew: “קובוקו”
  • Indonesian: “Koboko”
  • Irish: “Koboko”
  • Italian: “Koboko”
  • Japanese: “コボコ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Koboko”
  • Polish: “Koboko”
  • Portuguese: “Koboko”
  • Romanian: “Koboko”
  • Russian: “Кобоко”
  • Slovenian: “Koboko”
  • Spanish: “Koboko”
  • Swahili: “Koboko”
  • Tajik: “Кобоко”
  • Urdu: “کوبوکو”
  • Zulu: “Koboko”

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