Pallisa
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Pallisa is a town in Pallisa District of the Eastern Region of Uganda.{{cite web|url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1486350/power-distributor-umeme-lights-pallisa-town |title=Power Distributor Umeme Lights Up Pallisa Town |newspaper=New Vision |
date=25 September 2018 |author=Moses Nampala |access-date=3 January 2021 |location=Kampala}}
Geography
Pallisa is approximately {{convert|56|km|0}}, by road, west of Mbale, the largest city in the Eastern Region of Uganda.{{google maps| url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Pallisa/Mbale/@0.9252102,33.7016888,9.25z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x1779267e2dfbadcb:0x9a25f1e182dd21bf!2m2!1d33.7098569!2d1.1706966!1m5!1m1!1s0x1778b6126bdea17b:0xb84df43e61b7b568!2m2!1d34.1810057!2d1.0784436!3e0 |
title=Road Distance Between Mbale, Uganda And Pallisa, Uganda |
access-date=3 January 2021}} This is approximately {{convert|200|km|mi}}, by road, northeast of Kampala, the capital of Uganda.{{google maps|
url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Pallisa/Kampala/@0.8904571,32.5070897,8.25z/data=!4m15!4m14!1m5!1m1!1s0x1779267e2dfbadcb:0x9a25f1e182dd21bf!2m2!1d33.7098569!2d1.1706966!1m5!1m1!1s0x177dbc0f9d74b39b:0x4538903dd96b6fec!2m2!1d32.5825197!2d0.3475964!3e0!5i1 |
title=Road Distance Between Kampala, Uganda nd Pallisa, Uganda |
access-date=3 January 2021}} The coordinates of the town are 1°10'03.0"N, 33°42'36.0"E (Latitude:1.1675; Longitude:33.7100).{{google maps |
url=https://www.google.co.ug/maps/place/1%C2%B010'03.0%22N+33%C2%B042'36.0%22E/@1.1781859,33.7285543,13.06z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 |title=Location of Pallisa Town, Eastern Region, Uganda |
access-date=3 January 2020}}
Overview
The town of Pallisa is in a rural area with limited public transportation. One of the major activities include schooling, with the population of the town swelling to around 40,000 when school is in session. Children come from all around to go to one of the approximately twenty secondary schools in the area, where they live in huts, two to four students per hut, rented to them by villagers. The students fend entirely for themselves while going to school.{{cite web |url=http://chimpreports.com/index.php/people/health/19437-gov-t-reboots-education-standards-in-eastern-uganda.html | title=Government Reboots Education Standards in Eastern Uganda | accessdate=28 May 2014 | date=23 April 2014 | first=Susan | last=Nawonga | publisher=Chimpreports.com}}
Population
In 2014, the national population census and household survey, put the population at 32,681. In 2020, UBOS estimated the mid-year population of the town at 42,300. The population agency calculated the average annual growth rate of Pallisa's population at 4.26 percent per year, between 2014 and 2020.{{cite web |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uganda/cities/ |
title=Estimated Population of Pallisa Town In 2014 and 2020 |
date=14 June 2020 |publisher=Citypopulation.de Quoting Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) |access-date=3 January 2021 |
author=UBOS}}
Points of interest
The following additional points of interest lie within the town limits or near its borders:
1. The headquarters of Pallisa District Administration
2. The offices of Pallisa Town Council
3. Pallisa Central Market
4. A mobile branch of PostBank Uganda
5. The Pallisa Campus of Busitema University, one of the public universities in Uganda
6. The Tirinyi–Pallisa–Kamonkoli–Kumi Road passes through the middle of town.{{cite web| newspaper=New Vision | url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1336348/govt-earmarks-sh3042b-tirinyi-pallisa-kumi-road |title=Govt earmarks sh304.2b for Tirinyi-Pallisa-Kumi road |date=7 January 2014 | author=Francis Emorut |access-date=3 January 2021 | place=Kampala}}
7. Pallisa General Hospital, a 100-bed capacity public hospital, that serves Pallisa District and neighboring communities.{{cite web|date=21 December 2019 | url=https://ugandaradionetwork.net/story/pallisa-hospital-seeks-over-ugx200m-to-rehabilitate-childrens-ward |title=Pallisa Hospital Seeks Over Ugx200M to Rehabilitate Children’s Ward | publisher=Uganda Radio Network |access-date=3 January 2021 | author=Ayubu Kirinya |location=Kampala}}
See also
- List of cities and towns in Uganda
- Juliet Rainer Kafiire, Ugandan politician and legislator who represented Kibuku County in Pallisa between 1994 and 2006
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140529084400/http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/17/766073 Pallisa Pupils Fail Reading and Writing Tests]
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