Lira
Lira is a city in the Northern Region of Uganda. It serves as the main urban center of the Lango sub-region. On July 1, 2020, Lira was officially elevated to city status as part of Uganda's government plan to create new cities across the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 99,100 residents
- Description: municipality in Lira District, Northern Region, Uganda
- Also known as: “Lira, Uganda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lira Airport and Akii Bua Stadium.
Lira Airport
Aerodrome
Lira Airport is an airport serving Lira, a town in the Lira District of Uganda. Lira Airport is one of twelve upcountry airports that are administered by the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda. It is also one of the 46 airports in the country.
Akii Bua Stadium
Stadium
The Akii Bua Stadium, also Akii-Bua Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium under construction in Lira, Uganda. It is intended to be used for the first time, during the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament.
Lira Hospital
Hospital
Lira Regional Referral Hospital, commonly known as Lira Hospital, is a hospital in Lira in the Northern Region of Uganda. It is the referral hospital for the districts of Amolatar, Apac, Dokolo, Lira, Kole, and Oyam.
Lira
- Category: locality
- Location: Lira District, Northern Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
2.2457° or 2° 14′ 45″ northLongitude
32.8962° or 32° 53′ 47″ eastPopulation
99,100Elevation
1,104 metres (3,622 feet)United Nations Location Code
UG LIROpen location code
6GJJ6VWW+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 305377332OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zulu—“Lira” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lira”
- Arabic: “ليرا”
- Asturian: “Lira”
- Belarusian: “Ліра (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Ліра”
- Bengali: “লিরা”
- Catalan: “Lira”
- Cebuano: “Lira”
- Chinese: “里拉”
- Croatian: “Lira, Uganda”
- Croatian: “Lira”
- Czech: “Lira (město)”
- Czech: “Lira”
- Danish: “Lira”
- Dutch: “Lira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليرا”
- Esperanto: “Lira”
- Finnish: “Lira”
- French: “Lira”
- German: “Lira”
- Greek: “Λίρα”
- Gujarati: “લીરા”
- Hebrew: “לירה”
- Hindi: “लीरा”
- Hungarian: “Lira”
- Indonesian: “Lira”
- Italian: “Lira”
- Japanese: “リラ”
- Kalaallisut: “Lira”
- Kannada: “ಲಿರಾ”
- Korean: “리라”
- Latvian: “Lira”
- Lithuanian: “Lira”
- Malay: “Lira”
- Malayalam: “ലിറ, ഉഗാണ്ട”
- Malayalam: “ലിറ”
- Maori: “Lira”
- Marathi: “लीरा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lira”
- Polish: “Lira”
- Portuguese: “Lira”
- Romanian: “Lira, Uganda”
- Romanian: “Lira”
- Russian: “Лира”
- Sinhala: “ලිරා”
- Spanish: “Lira”
- Swahili: “Lira, Uganda”
- Swahili: “Lira”
- Swedish: “Lira, Uganda”
- Swedish: “Lira”
- Tamil: “லிரா”
- Telugu: “లీరా”
- Thai: “ลิรา”
- Turkish: “Lira”
- Ukrainian: “Ліра”
- Urdu: “لیرا، یوگنڈا”
- Urdu: “لیرا”
- Vietnamese: “Lira, Uganda”
- Vietnamese: “Lira”
- Western Armenian: “Լիրա”
- Zulu: “Lira, 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 Wikipedia page “Lira”. Photo: Blicious, CC BY-SA 3.0.