Mbale

Mbale is a city in the of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative commercial center of and the surrounding sub-region.
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  • Type: City with 96,200 residents
  • Description: City in Mbale District, Eastern Region, Uganda
  • Also known as: “Mbale City”

Places of Interest

Highlights: CURE Children’s Hospital of Uganda and Mbale Hospital.

Hospital
Photo: Dixon099, CC BY-SA 4.0.
CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda is a specialized children's neurosurgery hospital in . It is a private hospital, owned and operated by CURE International. The hospital is also a teaching center in pediatric neurosurgery for Sub-Saharan Africa.

Hospital building
Photo: Ssemmanda will, CC0.
Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, commonly known as is a hospital in Mbale, . It is the referral hospital for the districts of Busia, , , , Bukwa, , , , , and .

Mbale

Latitude
1.0712° or 1° 4′ 16″ north
Longitude
34.175° or 34° 10′ 30″ east
Population
96,200
Elevation
1,125 metres (3,691 feet)
UN/LOCODE
UG MBA
Open location code
6GHP35CF+FX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304491931
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
229278
Wiki­data ID
Q1015727
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Mbale” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مبالي”
  • Armenian: “Մբալե”
  • Asturian: “Mbale”
  • Belarusian: “Мбале”
  • Bengali: “এম্বেল”
  • Catalan: “Mbale”
  • Cebuano: “Mbale”
  • Chinese: “姆巴莱”
  • Chinese: “姆巴萊”
  • Croatian: “Mbale”
  • Danish: “Mbale”
  • Dutch: “Mbale”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مبالى”
  • Finnish: “Mbale”
  • French: “Mbale”
  • Galician: “Mbale”
  • Ganda: “Mbale”
  • German: “Mbale”
  • Greek: “Μπάλε”
  • Gujarati: “મ્બાલે”
  • Hebrew: “מבאלה”
  • Hindi: “म्बेल”
  • Hungarian: “Mbale”
  • Indonesian: “Mbale”
  • Italian: “Mbale”
  • Japanese: “ムバレ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mbale”
  • Kannada: “ಬೇಲೆ”
  • Korean: “엠발레”
  • Latvian: “Mbale”
  • Lithuanian: “Mbalė”
  • Malay: “Mbale”
  • Malayalam: “മ്ബലെ”
  • Maori: “Mbale”
  • Marathi: “मबाले”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mbale”
  • Persian: “امباله”
  • Polish: “Mbale”
  • Portuguese: “Mbale”
  • Romanian: “Mbale, Uganda”
  • Romanian: “Mbale”
  • Russian: “Мбале”
  • Silesian: “Mbale”
  • Sinhala: “එම්බලේ”
  • Spanish: “Mbale”
  • Swahili: “Mbale, Uganda”
  • Swahili: “Mbale”
  • Swedish: “Mbale”
  • Tamil: “ம்பாலே”
  • Telugu: “ఎంబలే”
  • Thai: “มบาเล”
  • Turkish: “Mbale, Uganda”
  • Turkish: “Mbale”
  • Ukrainian: “Мбале”
  • Urdu: “مبالے”
  • Vietnamese: “Mbale”
  • Zulu: “Mbale, Yuganda”

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