Wakiso District
Wakiso District is a district in the Central Region of Uganda that partly encircles Kampala, Uganda's capital city. Formed in 2000 out of Mpigi district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include King’s College.
King’s College
School
King’s College Budo is a mixed, residential, secondary school in Central Uganda. Established on March 29, 1906, on land donated by the Kabaka of Buganda, King's College Budo became one of the first institutions for higher education in Uganda and the first mixed-sex institution of higher learning in Uganda when it admitted girls in 1934.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buddo hill and Nabbingo.
Buddo hill
Village
Buddo, sometimes spelled as Budo, is a hill in Wakiso District, Central Uganda. Phonetically, Buddo is the correct spelling in Luganda, the native language of the local area.
Nabbingo
Village
Nabbingo is a hill in Wakiso District in the Buganda Region of Uganda. The hill rises 1,178 metres above sea level. The name "Nabbingo", also applies to the village that occupies the hill and the schools and churches that are located there. Nabbingo is situated 4½ km north of Wakiso District.
Nsangi
Village
Nsangi is a town in the Central Region of Uganda. It is one of the urban centers in Wakiso District. Nsangi is situated 5 km northwest of Wakiso District.
Wakiso District
- Type: district of Uganda with 3,410,000 residents
- Description: district in the Central Region of Uganda
- Category: electoral unit
- Location: Central Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Wakiso District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ضاحية واكيسو”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة واكيسو”
- Asturian: “Distritu de Wakiso”
- Asturian: “Wakiso”
- Basque: “Wakiso (barrutia)”
- Basque: “Wakiso”
- Belarusian: “акруга Вакісо”
- Belarusian: “Вакісо (акруга)”
- Belarusian: “Вакісо”
- Bengali: “ওয়াকিসো জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Wakiso District”
- Chinese: “Wakiso Koān”
- Chinese: “瓦基索区”
- Chinese: “瓦基索區”
- Danish: “Wakiso District”
- Dutch: “Wakiso”
- Finnish: “Wakison kaupunginosa”
- French: “Wakiso”
- Galician: “Distrito Wakiso”
- Ganda: “Wakiso Disitulikiti”
- Ganda: “Wakiso”
- German: “Distrikt Wakiso”
- German: “UG-113”
- Greek: “Γουακίσο”
- Gujarati: “વાકીશો જિલ્લો”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ואקיסו”
- Hindi: “वाकिसो जिला”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Wakiso”
- Italian: “distretto di Wakiso”
- Italian: “Distretto di Wakiso”
- Japanese: “ワキソ県”
- Kannada: “ವಕಿಸೋ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “와키소구”
- Latvian: “Vakiso distrikts”
- Lithuanian: “Vakiso apskritis”
- Malay: “Wakiso District”
- Marathi: “वॅकीओ जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wakiso Koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wakiso”
- Persian: “ناحیه واکیسو”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Wakiso”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Wakiso”
- Romanian: “Districtul Wakiso”
- Russian: “Вакисо”
- Serbian: “Вакисо”
- Sinhala: “වකිසෝ දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovenian: “distrikt Wakiso”
- Slovenian: “UG-113”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Wakiso”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Wakiso”
- Swedish: “Wakiso”
- Tamil: “வாகிஸோ மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “వాకిసో జిల్లా”
- Thai: “เขตวาคิโซ”
- Tumbuka: “Boma la Wakiso”
- Turkish: “Wakiso District”
- Ukrainian: “Район Вакісо”
- Urdu: “واکیسو ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Wakiso”
- Zulu: “Wakiso District”
- “Wakiso”
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