Oyam District
Oyam District is a district in Northern Uganda. Like most Ugandan districts, it is named after its 'chief town', Oyam, where the district headquarters are located.- Type: district of Uganda with 340,000 residents
- Description: district in Northern Region, Uganda
- Also known as: “District d’Oyam”
Oyam District
- Category: electoral unit
- Location: Northern Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
2.3813° or 2° 22′ 53″ north
Longitude
32.5007° or 32° 30′ 3″ east
Population
340,000
Elevation
1,064 metres (3,491 feet)
Open location code
6GJJ9GJ2+G7
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Oyam District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة أويام”
- Asturian: “Distritu d’Oyam”
- Bengali: “ওয়াম জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Oyam District”
- Chinese: “奥扬区”
- Chinese: “奧揚區”
- Danish: “Oyam District”
- Dutch: “Oyam”
- Finnish: “Oyamin kaupunginosa”
- French: “Oyam”
- Galician: “Distrito de Oyam”
- Galician: “Distrito Oyam”
- Ganda: “Oyam District”
- Ganda: “Oyam”
- German: “Distrikt Oyam”
- German: “Oyam-Distrikt”
- Greek: “Ογιάμ”
- Gujarati: “ઓયમ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “ओयाम जिला”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Oyam”
- Italian: “Distretto di Oyam”
- Italian: “Oyam”
- Japanese: “オヤム県”
- Kannada: “ಒಯಾಮ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “오얌구”
- Latvian: “Ojamas distrikts”
- Lithuanian: “Ojamo apskritis”
- Malay: “Oyam District”
- Marathi: “ओयम जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oyam Koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oyam”
- Persian: “ناحیه اویام”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Oyam”
- Portuguese: “Oyam”
- Romanian: “Districtul Oyam”
- Russian: “Ойам”
- Sinhala: “ඔයාම් දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Oyam”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Oyam”
- Swedish: “Oyam”
- Tamil: “ஓயும் மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “ఓయామ్ జిల్లా”
- Thai: “เขตโอยัม”
- Turkish: “Oyam District”
- Ukrainian: “Район Ойам”
- Urdu: “اویام ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Oyam tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Oyam”
- Zulu: “Oyam District”
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