Uganda
Eastern Uganda
Jinja District

Jinja

Jinja is a city of 300,000 people in . The city is at the source of the Nile, and in Uganda more famously the source of Nile Beer. This is a popular destination for backpackers for its white water rafting.
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  • Type: City with 72,900 residents
  • Description: City in Jinja District, Eastern Region, Uganda
  • Also known as: “Idindha”, “Jinga”, and “Jinja, Uganda”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nile International Hospital and Jinja Hospital.

Hospital
is one of the biggest hospitals in and specifically the biggest in the Eastern Region . It is located in Jinja City the second largest city next to in Uganda.

Hospital
Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, commonly known as , is a hospital in the city of Jinja, in the of . This 600-bed medical facility is the largest hospital in eastern Uganda, although many more patients are admitted beyond its sanctioned capacity, with many having to sleep on the floor.

Aerodrome
is a small civilian and military airport in . It serves the town of Jinja in , Busoga, . It is adjacent to the of the Uganda People's Defence Force at , a suburb of Jinja.

Jinja

Latitude
0.4353° or 0° 26′ 7″ north
Longitude
33.2056° or 33° 12′ 20″ east
Population
72,900
Elevation
1,187 metres (3,894 feet)
IATA airport code
JIN
United Nations Location Code
UG JIN
Open location code
6GGMC6P4+46
Open­Street­Map ID
node 294001845
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
233114
Wiki­data ID
Q501709
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Satellite Map

Discover Jinja from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Jinja” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jinja”
  • Arabic: “جينجا”
  • Armenian: “Ջինջա”
  • Basque: “Jinja”
  • Bengali: “জিনজা”
  • Bulgarian: “Джинджа”
  • Catalan: “Jinja”
  • Cebuano: “Jinja Municipality”
  • Chinese: “金賈”
  • Chinese: “金贾”
  • Croatian: “Jinja”
  • Czech: “Jinja”
  • Danish: “Jinja”
  • Dutch: “Jinja”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جينجا”
  • Esperanto: “Jinja”
  • Finnish: “Jinja”
  • French: “Jinja”
  • Ganda: “Jinja”
  • Georgian: “ჯინჯა”
  • German: “Jinja”
  • Greek: “Τζίντζα”
  • Gujarati: “જિન્જા”
  • Hebrew: “ג’ינג’ה”
  • Hebrew: “גינגה”
  • Hindi: “जिंजा”
  • Hungarian: “Jinja”
  • Indonesian: “Jinja, Uganda”
  • Indonesian: “Jinja”
  • Italian: “Jinja”
  • Japanese: “ジンジャ”
  • Japanese: “ジンジヤ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಂಜ”
  • Korean: “진자”
  • Latvian: “Džindža”
  • Lithuanian: “Džindža”
  • Low German: “Jinja”
  • Malay: “Jinja”
  • Malayalam: “ജിൻജ”
  • Maori: “Jinja”
  • Marathi: “जिन्जा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jinja (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jinja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jinja”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jinja”
  • Persian: “جینجا، اوگاندا”
  • Persian: “جینجا”
  • Polish: “Jinja”
  • Portuguese: “Jinja”
  • Romanian: “Jinja”
  • Russian: “Джинджа”
  • Silesian: “Jinja”
  • Sinhala: “ජින්ජ”
  • Slovenian: “Jinja”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جینجا، اوقاندا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جینجا”
  • Spanish: “Jinja”
  • Swahili: “Jinja”
  • Swedish: “Jinja”
  • Tamil: “ஜின்ஜா”
  • Telugu: “జింజ”
  • Thai: “จินจา”
  • Turkish: “Jinja, Uganda”
  • Turkish: “Jinja”
  • Ukrainian: “Джинджа”
  • Urdu: “جنجا، یوگنڈا”
  • Urdu: “جنجا”
  • Uzbek: “Jinja”
  • Vietnamese: “Jinja, Uganda”
  • Vietnamese: “Jinja”
  • Zulu: “Jinja, Yuganda”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Jinja”. Photo: Bernard DUPONT, CC BY-SA 2.0.