Gulu

Gulu is the largest city in Uganda and serves as the economic and administrative centre of the sub-region.
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  • Type: City with 152,000 residents
  • Description: city in Uganda
  • Also known as: “Gulu City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gulu University School of Medicine and Gulu Hospital.

University
, also known as Gulu University Medical School is the school of medicine of Gulu University, one of 's public universities.

Hospital building
Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, commonly known as is a hospital in Gulu, northern . It is the referral hospital for the districts of , , , and .

Hotel
is a hotel in Gulu, the largest city in .

Gulu

Latitude
2.7702° or 2° 46′ 13″ north
Longitude
32.3044° or 32° 18′ 16″ east
Population
152,000
Elevation
1,104 metres (3,622 feet)
IATA airport code
ULU
United Nations Location Code
UG ULU
Open location code
6GJJQ8C3+3Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304816313
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
233346
Wiki­data ID
Q581379
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Gulu” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ጉሉ”
  • Arabic: “جولو”
  • Arabic: “غولو”
  • Armenian: “Գուլու”
  • Asturian: “Gulu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qulu”
  • Basque: “Gulu”
  • Bengali: “গুলু”
  • Bengali: “জুলু”
  • Catalan: “Gulu”
  • Cebuano: “Gulu”
  • Chinese: “古卢”
  • Chinese: “古盧”
  • Croatian: “Gulu”
  • Czech: “Gulu (Uganda)”
  • Czech: “Gulu”
  • Danish: “Gulu”
  • Dutch: “Gulu”
  • Esperanto: “Gulu”
  • Finnish: “Gulu”
  • French: “Gulu”
  • Galician: “Gulu”
  • Ganda: “Gulu”
  • Georgian: “გულუ”
  • German: “Gulu”
  • Greek: “Γκουλού”
  • Gujarati: “ગુલુ”
  • Hausa: “Gulu”
  • Hebrew: “גולו”
  • Hindi: “गुलु”
  • Hungarian: “Gulu”
  • Indonesian: “Gulu”
  • Italian: “Gulu”
  • Japanese: “グル”
  • Japanese: “グルー”
  • Javanese: “Gulu”
  • Kalaallisut: “Gulu”
  • Kannada: “ಗುಲು”
  • Kazakh: “Гулу”
  • Kirghiz: “Гулу”
  • Korean: “굴루”
  • Latvian: “Gulu”
  • Lithuanian: “Gulu”
  • Malay: “Gulu”
  • Malayalam: “ഗുലു”
  • Maori: “Gulu”
  • Marathi: “गुल्लू”
  • Moksha: “Гулу”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gulu (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gulu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gulu”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਲੂ”
  • Persian: “گولو، اوگاندا”
  • Persian: “گولو”
  • Polish: “Gulu”
  • Portuguese: “Gulu”
  • Pushto: “جولو”
  • Romanian: “Gulu”
  • Russian: “Гул”
  • Russian: “Гулу”
  • Silesian: “Gulu”
  • Sinhala: “ගුළු”
  • Slovenian: “Gulu”
  • Somali: “Gulu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قولو، اوقاندا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قولو”
  • Spanish: “Gulu”
  • Swahili: “Gulu”
  • Swedish: “Gulu”
  • Tajik: “Гулу”
  • Tamil: “குளு”
  • Tatar: “Гулу”
  • Telugu: “గులు”
  • Thai: “กูลู”
  • Turkish: “Gulu”
  • Ukrainian: “Гулу”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґулу”
  • Urdu: “گولو”
  • Uzbek: “Gulu”
  • Vietnamese: “Gulu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gulu”
  • Zulu: “Gulu”

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