Nakaseke is a town in

Nakaseke District Nakaseke District is a district in Central Uganda. It is named after Nakaseke, the largest town in the district. However, the district headquarters are located at Butalangu. Location Nakaseke District is bordered by Nakasongola District to the ...

in the Central Region of

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. It is the main municipal and commercial center of the district. However, the political and administrative capital in the district is Butalangu.

Location

Nakaseke is approximately by road, northwest of

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, the capital and largest city of Uganda. The road from Kampala to

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, a distance of about , is all-weather

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, with the last to Nakaseke on a gravel-dirt road. The coordinates of the town are 0°43'48.0"N, 32°24'54.0"E (Latitude:0.7300; Longitude:32.4150). Nakaseke Town sits at an average elevation of above

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Overview

Nakaseke Town Council was carved out of Nakaseke sub-county and was demarcated in 2010. The town, in its early years, faces challenges related to physical planning. Most of the people in Nakaseke are

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, the largest ethnic group in the Central Region. An estimated 59.2 percent of the Nakaseke community is literate, which is largely limited to the

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language. A Primary Teachers' Training College has been built in Nakaseke.

Nakaseke Hospital Nakaseke General Hospital, also Nakaseke Hospital, is a public hospital in the Central Region of Uganda. Location The hospital is located in the town of Nakaseke, in Nakaseke District, in the part of the country known as the Luweero Triangle. I ...

, a 120-bed public hospital owned by the

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, is in Nakaseke town. The hospital is administered by the Nakaseke District Local Government The hospital is connected to other health units by a radio. The government of Uganda plans to build an industrial park in Nakaseke.

Population

During the national census and household survey of 27 and 28 August 2014, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), enumerated the population of Nakaseke at 7,238 people. In 2015, UBOS estimated the population of Nakaseke Town at 7,400. In 2020, the population agency estimated the mid-year population of the town at 8,600. UBOS calculated the rate of population growth of Nakaseke Town to average 3.05 percent annually, between 2015 and 2020.

References

External links

Google Map of Nakaseke with coordinates
{{Nakaseke District Populated places in Central Region, Uganda Cities in the Great Rift Valley Nakaseke District

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