Kampala District
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 4,265,160 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central, Kawempe, Makindye, Nakawa, and Rubaga.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uganda Museum and National Library of Uganda.
Uganda Museum
Museum
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The Uganda Museum is located in Kampala, Uganda. It displays and exhibits ethnological, natural-historical and traditional life collections of Uganda's cultural heritage.
National Library of Uganda
Library
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The National Library of Uganda was established by an Act of Parliament in 2003, replacing the Public Libraries Board itself established in 1964. It is the legal deposit library for Uganda and was under the directorship of Gertrude Kayaga Mulindwa.
Nakivubo Stadium
Stadium
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Hamz Stadium, Nakivubo War Memorial Grounds, formerly referred to as Nakivubo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kampala, Uganda. The Hamz Stadium is used mostly for association football and also sometimes for basketball.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kampala and Kololo.
Kampala
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Kampala, the City of Seven Hills, is the capital city of Uganda and is, by a very large margin, the largest city in the country. Secondary to it is Jinja to the east and Entebbe to the south.
Kololo
Suburb
Kololo is a hill in Kampala, the largest city and capital of Uganda. The name also applies to the upscale residential and commercial neighbourhood that sits on that hill.
Makerere
Suburb
Makerere is a neighborhood in the city of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. The name also applies to the hill on which this neighborhood is perched; one of the original seven hills that constituted Kampala at the time of its founding, in the early 1900s.
Kampala District
- Type: district of Uganda with 1,800,000 residents
- Description: district in Uganda
- Location: Central Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Kampala District from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kampala District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ضاحية كمبالا”
- Arabic: “كمبالا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كمبالا”
- Asturian: “Distritu de Kampala”
- Belarusian: “акруга Кампала”
- Belarusian: “Кампала (акруга)”
- Belarusian: “Кампала”
- Bengali: “কাম্পালা জেলা”
- Catalan: “districte de Kampala”
- Cebuano: “Kampala District”
- Chinese: “坎帕拉区”
- Chinese: “坎帕拉區”
- Danish: “Kampala District”
- Dutch: “Kampala”
- Finnish: “Kampalan piirikunta”
- French: “Kampala”
- Galician: “Distrito de Kampala”
- Galician: “Distrito Kampala”
- Ganda: “Kampala”
- German: “Kampala”
- Greek: “Καμπάλα”
- Gujarati: “કેમ્પાલા જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “कम्पाला जिला”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Kampala”
- Italian: “Kampala”
- Japanese: “カンパラ県”
- Kannada: “ಕಂಪಾಲಾ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “캄팔라구”
- Kurdish: “Kampala”
- Latvian: “Kampalas reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Kampalos apskritis”
- Malay: “Daerah Kampala”
- Marathi: “कंपाला जिल्हा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kampala”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Kampala”
- Portuguese: “Campala”
- Portuguese: “Kampala”
- Romanian: “Districtul Kampala”
- Russian: “Кампала”
- Sinhala: “කම්පාලා දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Kampala”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Kampala”
- Swedish: “Kampala”
- Tamil: “கம்பலா மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “కంపాలా జిల్లా”
- Thai: “อำเภอกัมปาลา”
- Turkish: “Kampala ili”
- Ukrainian: “Кампала”
- Urdu: “کمپالا ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Kampala”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Mulago and Wandegeya.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Makerere University School of Public Health and Mulago National Specialised Hospital.
Central Uganda: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Kampala, Entebbe, Masaka, and Ssese Islands.
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