Jinja Airport
Jinja Airport is a small civilian and military airport in Uganda. It serves the town of Jinja in Jinja District, Busoga, Eastern Region. It is adjacent to the Uganda Senior Command and Staff College of the Uganda People's Defence Force at Kimaka, a suburb of Jinja.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport serving in Uganda
- Also known as: “HUJI”, “JIN”, “Jinja”, and “Jinja Airfield”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kiira Hydroelectric Power Station and Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station.
Kiira Hydroelectric Power Station
Dam
Kiira Hydroelectric Power Station is a hydroelectric power station in Uganda, with an installed capacity of 200 megawatts.
Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station
Dam
Photo: Fredrick Onyango, CC BY 2.0.
Nalubaale Power Station, formerly known as Owen Falls Dam, is a hydroelectric power station across the White Nile near its source at Lake Victoria in Uganda. Nalubaale is the Luganda name for Lake Victoria.
Owen Falls
Dam
The Owen Falls was a waterfall on the White Nile in Uganda near the city of Jinja. The falls, together with the nearby Ripon Falls, were submerged in 1954 with the completion of the Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buwenda and Bugembe.
Buwenda
Village
Buwenda is a small village in Uganda located in the Bugiri district, close to the town of Jinja.
Bugembe
Village
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.
Wairaka
Town
Wairaka is a settlement in the Eastern Region of Uganda. Wairaka is situated 8 km east of Jinja Airport.
Jinja Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Mpumudde/Kimaka Division, Jinja, Jinja District, Eastern Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.45267° or 0° 27′ 10″ northLongitude
33.19318° or 33° 11′ 35″ eastElevation
1,175 metres (3,855 feet)Operator
Civil Aviation Authority of UgandaIATA airport code
JINICAO airport code
HUJIOpen location code
6GGMF53V+37OpenStreetMap ID
way 386136295OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
6297377Wikidata ID
Q2901878
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Satellite Map
Discover Jinja Airport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Jinja Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jinja Airport”
- French: “aéroport de Jinja”
- French: “Aéroport de Jinja”
- French: “Aéroport”
- French: “Airport”
- French: “HUJI”
- Ganda: “ekisaawe ky’ennyonyi eky’eJinja”
- Ganda: “JIN”
- Ganda: “Jinja”
- Hungarian: “Jinjai repülőtér”
- Indonesian: “HUJI”
- Indonesian: “JIN”
- Japanese: “ジンジャ空港”
- Korean: “진자 공항”
- Lingala: “Libándá lya Ndáko ya mpɛ́pɔ ya Jinja”
- Lingala: “Libándá lya Ndáko ya mpɛ́pɔ”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Jinja”
- Persian: “فرودگاه جینجا”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Jinja”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Jinja”
- Swahili: “uwanja wa ndege wa Jinja”
- Swahili: “uwanja wa ndege”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи ҷинҷо”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay Jinja”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kimaka and Ambercourt.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Elim Pentacoastal Church and Acacia Community Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Jinja Airport”. Photo: Bernard DUPONT, CC BY-SA 2.0.