Mbarara
Mbarara City is a city in the Western Region of Uganda and the second largest city in Uganda after Kampala. The city is divided into 6 boroughs of Kakoba Division, Kamukuzi Division, Nyamitanga Division, Biharwe Division, Kakiika Division, Nyakayojo Division.
- Type: City with 195,000 residents
- Description: city in Uganda
- Also known as: “Mbarara City”, “एम्बरारा”, “મબરારા”, “ம்பரா”, and “เมืองมบารารา”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mbarara Hospital and Kakyeka Stadium.
Mbarara Hospital
Hospital
Kakyeka Stadium
Playground
Kakyeka Stadium is the stadium located in Mbarara in Western Region, Uganda. The Stadium is in the West side of the main city and it has a capacity of 1,500 people.
Holy Innocents Children’s Hospital
Hospital
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bwizibwera.
Bwizibwera
Village
Bwizibwera is a township located in Kashari South County, Mbarara District, Uganda. After Mbarara Municipality was elevated to city status in 2020, the Mbarara District's headquarters were moved to Bwzibwera.
Mbarara
- Categories: city of Uganda, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Mbarara Municipality, Mbarara district, Western Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.6108° or 0° 36′ 39″ south
Longitude
30.6533° or 30° 39′ 12″ east
Population
195,000
Elevation
1,422 metres (4,665 feet)
IATA airport code
MBQ
UN/LOCODE
UG MBQ
Open location code
6GFG9MQ3+M8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Mbarara” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ምባራራ”
- Arabic: “مبارارا”
- Armenian: “Մբարարա”
- Azerbaijani: “Mbarara”
- Belarusian: “Мбарара”
- Bengali: “মেম্বারারা”
- Bengali: “ম্বারারা”
- Catalan: “Mbarara”
- Cebuano: “Mbarara”
- Chinese: “姆巴拉拉”
- Croatian: “Mbarara”
- Czech: “Mbarara”
- Danish: “Mbarara”
- Dutch: “Mbarara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مبارارا”
- Finnish: “Mbarara”
- French: “Mbarara”
- Galician: “Mbarara”
- Ganda: “Mbarara city”
- Georgian: “მბარარა”
- German: “Mbarara”
- Greek: “Μπαράρα”
- Gujarati: “એમબરારા”
- Hausa: “Mbarara”
- Hindi: “बरेरा”
- Hindi: “म्बारारा”
- Hungarian: “Mbarara”
- Igbo: “Mbarara”
- Indonesian: “Mbarara”
- Irish: “Mbarara”
- Italian: “Mbarara”
- Japanese: “ムバララ”
- Javanese: “Mbarara”
- Kannada: “ಮಬರಾರಾ”
- Kazakh: “Мбарара”
- Kirghiz: “Мбарара”
- Korean: “음바라라”
- Latvian: “Mbarara”
- Lithuanian: “Mbarara”
- Malay: “Mbarara”
- Malayalam: “മ്ബരര”
- Marathi: “मुबारारा”
- Moroccan Arabic: “مبارارا”
- Northern Frisian: “Mbarara”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mbarara”
- Oromo: “Mbarara”
- Panjabi: “ਮਬਾਰਾਰਾ”
- Persian: “امبارارا”
- Persian: “مبارارا”
- Polish: “Mbarara”
- Portuguese: “Mbarara”
- Pushto: “مبارارا”
- Romanian: “Mbarara”
- Russian: “Мбарара”
- Sinhala: “එම්බරරා”
- Slovenian: “Mbarara”
- Somali: “Mbarara”
- South Azerbaijani: “امبارارا”
- Spanish: “Mbarara”
- Swahili: “Mbarara City”
- Swahili: “Mbarara”
- Swedish: “Mbarara”
- Tajik: “Мбарара”
- Tamil: “ம்பரரா”
- Tatar: “Мбарара”
- Telugu: “ఎంబరారా”
- Thai: “มบารารา”
- Turkish: “Mbarara”
- Ukrainian: “Мбарара”
- Urdu: “مبارارا”
- Uzbek: “Mbarara”
- Vietnamese: “Mbarara”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mbarara”
- Zulu: “Mbarara”
- “Mbarara City”
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