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Kireka

Kireka is a township in . It is one of the six townships or Wards that constitute in . The other five Wards in Kira Municipality are , Kimwaanyi Ward, , and .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Mandela National Stadium and Nabisunsa Girls’ Secondary School.

Stadium
Photo: Vebjorl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Namboole Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in . It is named after the former President and anti-apartheid icon, Nelson Mandela.

School
Nabisunsa Girls Secondary School is an all-girl boarding school located in , . The school was founded in 1954 by Prince Badru Kakungulu, a Buganda Royal, in 1954, to offer post-primary education to the Muslim girl-child.

Hospital
Butabika National Referral Hospital, commonly known as is a in , 's capital and largest city. It is the mental health national referral hospital for the entire country's estimated population of 36 million in 2014. is situated 3½ km south of Kireka.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mbalwa and Kirinnya.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in Kyaliwajjala Parish, , in the of .

Suburb
, is one of the six administrative wards in in in the of .

Suburb
is a neighborhood in , . It is within , an administrative borough of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. is situated 2½ km northwest of Kireka.

Kireka

Latitude
0.34517° or 0° 20′ 43″ north
Longitude
32.64839° or 32° 38′ 54″ east
Population
54,000
Elevation
1,206 metres (3,957 feet)
Open location code
6GGJ8JWX+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 582955411
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
11356982
Wiki­data ID
Q6415051
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Irish—“Kireka” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Kireka”
  • Ganda: “Kireka”
  • Irish: “Kireka”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Kireka Police Post and kireka stage police post.

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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 “Kireka”. Photo: Jim Joel, CC BY-SA 4.0.