Arua

Arua is a city and commercial centre within the in the of . Arua has about 385,000 residents and an elevation of around 1,200 metres.
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  • Town with about 385,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,200 metres (3,920 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code RUA
  • Description: City in North Western Uganda

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arua Central Forest Reserve and Barifa Forest.
Protected area
, also known…
is a forest near Arua in the of .
Jambujack, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church
is a church.

Arua

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Latitude
3.0225° or 3° 1′ 21″ north
Longitude
30.9105° or 30° 54′ 38″ east
UN/LOCODE
UG RUA
Open location code
6GMG2WF6+25
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1999485035
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
235039
Wiki­data ID
Q500111

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Arua” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أروا”
  • Asturian: “Arua”
  • Bengali: “আরুয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Аруа”
  • Cebuano: “Arua”
  • Chinese: “阿魯阿”
  • Chinese: “阿鲁阿”
  • Danish: “Arua”
  • Dutch: “Arua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اروا”
  • Finnish: “Arua City”
  • Finnish: “Arua”
  • French: “Arua”
  • Ganda: “Arua”
  • German: “Arua”
  • Greek: “Άρουα”
  • Gujarati: “આરૂઆ”
  • Hausa: “Arua”
  • Hebrew: “ארוא”
  • Hindi: “अरुआ”
  • Hungarian: “Arua”
  • Indonesian: “Arua”
  • Italian: “Arua”
  • Japanese: “アルア”
  • Kannada: “ಅರುವಾ”
  • Korean: “아루라”
  • Korean: “아루아”
  • Latvian: “Arua”
  • Lithuanian: “Arua”
  • Low German: “Arua”
  • Malay: “Arua”
  • Marathi: “अरुआ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arua”
  • Persian: “آروا”
  • Polish: “Arua”
  • Portuguese: “Arua”
  • Romanian: “Arua”
  • Russian: “Аруа”
  • Sinhala: “අරුආ”
  • Spanish: “Arua”
  • Swahili: “Arua”
  • Swedish: “Arua”
  • Tajik: “Аруа”
  • Tamil: “அறுவை”
  • Telugu: “అరుఆ”
  • Thai: “อรัวนา”
  • Turkish: “Arua”
  • Ukrainian: “Аруа”
  • Urdu: “اروا”
  • Vietnamese: “Arua”
  • Zulu: “Arua”

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