Bugembe
Bugembe is a town in Jinja District in the Eastern Region of Uganda. It is the seat of the Kingdom of Busoga, one of the four constitutional in Uganda, which is coterminous with the Busoga sub-region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wairaka and Jinja.
Wairaka
Town
Wairaka is a settlement in the Eastern Region of Uganda. Wairaka is situated 3½ km east of Bugembe.
Jinja
Photo: Bernard DUPONT, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jinja is a city of 300,000 people in Uganda. 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.
Buwenda
Village
Buwenda is a small village in Uganda located in the Bugiri district, close to the town of Jinja. Buwenda is situated 7 km west of Bugembe.
Bugembe
- Type: Village with 45,600 residents
- Description: place in Jinja District
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Bugembe Town Council, Butembe, Jinja District, Eastern Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.47972° or 0° 28′ 47″ northLongitude
33.23444° or 33° 14′ 4″ eastPopulation
45,600Elevation
1,312 metres (4,304 feet)United Nations Location Code
UG BUGOpen location code
6GGMF6HM+VQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2229101265OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Zulu—“Bugembe” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Бугембе”
- Cebuano: “Bugembe”
- Dutch: “Bugembe”
- Ganda: “Bugembe”
- Irish: “Bugembe”
- Polish: “Bugembe”
- Slovenian: “Bugembe”
- Swahili: “Bugembe”
- Urdu: “بوگیمبے”
- Zulu: “Bugembe”
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