Masaka

Masaka is in , and is the main commercial and administrative centre of the surrounding Masaka area.
  • City with about 294,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,200 metres (3,940 feet)
  • …is also known as “Msaka City”
  • Description: City in Uganda

Places of Interest

Highlights include Muteesa I Royal University and Masaka Secondary School.
School
is a mixed, day and boarding…
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Latitude
-0.339° or 0° 20′ 21″ south
Longitude
31.7466° or 31° 44′ 48″ east
UN/LOCODE
UG MSK
Open location code
6GFHMP6W+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Masaka” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماساكا”
  • Bengali: “মাসাকা”
  • Cebuano: “Masaka”
  • Chinese: “马萨卡”
  • Croatian: “Masaka”
  • Danish: “Masaka”
  • Dutch: “Masaka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماساكا”
  • Finnish: “Masaka City”
  • Finnish: “Masaka”
  • French: “Masaka”
  • Galician: “Masaka”
  • Ganda: “E Buddu”
  • Ganda: “Masaka”
  • German: “Masaka”
  • Greek: “Μασάκα”
  • Gujarati: “મસાકા”
  • Hausa: “Masaka”
  • Hindi: “मसाका”
  • Hungarian: “Masaka”
  • Indonesian: “Masaka”
  • Italian: “Masaka”
  • Japanese: “マサカ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಸಾಕ”
  • Korean: “마사카”
  • Latvian: “Masaka”
  • Lithuanian: “Masaka”
  • Malay: “Masaka”
  • Marathi: “मसाका”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Masaka”
  • Polish: “Masaka”
  • Portuguese: “Masaka”
  • Romanian: “Masaka, Uganda”
  • Romanian: “Masaka”
  • Russian: “Масака”
  • Russian: “Масаки”
  • Sinhala: “මසකා”
  • Slovenian: “Masaka”
  • Spanish: “Masaka”
  • Swahili: “Masaka”
  • Swedish: “Masaka”
  • Tamil: “மசகா”
  • Telugu: “మసాక”
  • Thai: “มาซากา”
  • Turkish: “Masaka”
  • Ukrainian: “Масака”
  • Urdu: “ماساکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Masaka”
  • Zulu: “Masaka”

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