Northern Uganda
Arua District
Arua Municipality

Arua

Arua is a city and commercial centre within the in the of . Arua has about 62,700 residents and an elevation of 1,215 metres.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Arua Central Forest Reserve and Barifa Forest.

Protected area
, also known as is a in , Uganda. It is managed by National Forestry Authority. The reserve is constantly under threat from depletion and encroachers who are a threat the existence of tree species in this forest reserve.

is a forest near Arua in the of . Located southeast of Arua Hill, it extends up to Mvara and Muni. It was gazetted in 1948 but may soon be degazetted after consultations to pave way for the Nile Eco-City, a satellite city in Arua Municipality.

Church
Photo: Jambujack, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Arua

Latitude
3.0225° or 3° 1′ 21″ north
Longitude
30.9105° or 30° 54′ 38″ east
Population
62,700
Elevation
1,215 metres (3,986 feet)
IATA airport code
RUA
United Nations Location Code
UG RUA
Open location code
6GMG2WF6+25
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1999485035
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
235039
Wiki­data ID
Q500111
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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”
  • French: “Arua”
  • Ganda: “Arua”
  • German: “Arua”
  • Greek: “Άρουα”
  • Gujarati: “આરૂઆ”
  • 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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