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The nearest town is Kyotera, in Kyotera District, located approximately {{convert|22|km|0}}, north-east of Rakai.{{google maps|

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access-date=3 January 2021}} Rakai is located about {{convert|48|km|0}} north-west of the international border with Tanzania at Mutukula.{{google maps| url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Rakai+town/MUTUKULA+FOREX+BUREAU+LTD,+Masaka+-+Kakuto+Rd,+Lukoma/@-0.882434,31.3204291,10z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x19d9c37ee834c6b7:0x17595c5eb630bfb4!2m2!1d31.4084731!2d-0.709917!1m5!1m1!1s0x19d9f70a2a727c71:0x6df998f7efee48e!2m2!1d31.4171354!2d-0.9991981!3e0 |title=Distance between Rakai Town, Central Region, Uganda and Mutukula Forex Bureau, Mutukula, Central Region, Uganda |access-date=3 January 2021}} and approximately {{convert|66.5|km|0}}south-west of Masaka, the nearest large city.{{google maps|

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access-date=3 January 2021}} The town is approximately {{convert|199|km|0}} south-west of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.{{google maps|

url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Rakai+town/Kampala/@-0.1776245,31.4329736,9z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x19d9c37ee834c6b7:0x17595c5eb630bfb4!2m2!1d31.4084731!2d-0.709917!1m5!1m1!1s0x177dbc0f9d74b39b:0x4538903dd96b6fec!2m2!1d32.5825197!2d0.3475964!3e0 |title=Distance between Rakai Town, Central Region, Uganda and Kampala, Central Region, Uganda | access-date=3 January 2021}} The coordinates of Rakai are 0°42'36.0"S, 31°24'18.0"E (Latitude:-0.7100, Longitude:31.4050).{{google maps | url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/0%C2%B042'36.0%22S+31%C2%B024'18.0%22E/@-0.7099946,31.4028169,445m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d-0.71!4d31.405 |title=Location of Rakai Town, Rakai District, Uganda |access-date=3 January 2021}}

The 2002 national census put the population of the town at about 5,920. In 2010, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) estimated the mid-year population at 6,900. In 2011, UBOS estimated the mid-year population at 7,000.{{cite web | title=Estimated Population of Rakai In 2002, 2010 & 2011 | url=http://www.ubos.org/onlinefiles/uploads/ubos/pdf%20documents/TP52010.pdf | publisher=Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) | access-date=20 October 2016 | author=UBOS | location=Kampala | date=2012}} During the national population census conducted on 27 August 2014, the population was enumerated at 7,592.{{cite web |date=November 2014 | url=http://www.ubos.org/onlinefiles/uploads/ubos/NPHC/NPHC%202014%20PROVISIONAL%20RESULTS%20REPORT.pdf |title=National Population And Housing Census 2014: Provisional Results, Revised Edition | location=Kampala |publisher=Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) |access-date=3 January 2021 |author=UBOS}}

In 2015, UBOS estimated the population of Rakai Town at 7,500. In 2020, the population agency estimated the mid-year population of the town at 8,500. UBOS calculated the annual growth rate of the town's population to average 2.53 percent, between 2015 and 2020.{{cite web| title=Estimated Population of Rakai Town |publisher=Cityopulation.de |date=14 June 2020 | url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uganda/central/admin/036__rakai/ |author=Uganda Bureau of Statistics |access-date=3 January 2021 |format=Citypopulation.de Quoting Uganda Bureau of Statistics}}{{Historical populations| 2002|5,920|2010|6,900|2011|7,000|2014|7,592|2015|7,500|2020|8,500|||align=none|footnote=source:}}

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Rakai is the headquarters of Rakai District, which in the early 1980s, was the epicenter and first distinct in Uganda to be affected by the AIDS epidemic.{{cite web| last=Mutyaba | accessdate=25 October 2016 | url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/Rakai--Where-Uganda-s-HIV-fight-began/688342-2199230-a4tuo6z/index.html | title=Rakai: Where Uganda’s HIV fight began | date=10 February 2014 | first=Gertrude | newspaper=Daily Monitor | location=Kampala}}

The following additional points of interest are located within the town limits or close to its edges: (a) the offices of Rakai Town Council. (b) Rakai General Hospital, a 100-bed public hospital administered by the Rakai District local government.{{cite web|

date=4 December 2012 | accessdate=25 October 2016 | last=Mpagi | url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Rakai-Hospital-without-X-ray-machine-for-seven-years/-/688334/1635630/-/3qe1m6/-/index.html | title=Rakai Hospital without X-ray machine for seven years | first=Musa |

newspaper=Daily Monitor | location=Kampala}} (c) Kamuswaga's Palace.{{cite web | accessdate=25 October 2016 | date=10 May 2007 | last=Mugera | url=http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=11243 | title=Kamuswaga's Palace in Ruins Three Years after Reinstatement of Kooki Kingdom | publisher=Uganda Radio Network | location=Kampala | first=Isaac}} (d) the offices of Rakai District Headquarters. (e) Rakai Health Sciences Program, a collaboration between researchers at Makerere University, Columbia University, and Johns Hopkins University, offering several different health services such as antiretroviral medications, circumcision, health education, and counseling as well as research in the field of HIV/AIDS.{{Cite web | url=http://www.rhsp.org/ | title=Rakai Health Sciences | website=www.rhsp.org | language=en-gb | access-date=9 March 2017}}

There is a police station in Rakai Town, administered and operated by the Uganda Police Force.{{cite web| accessdate=25 October 2016 | url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1419902/rakai-forward-coordinator-arrested-rebel-links | title=Rakai Go Forward coordinator arrested over rebel links | date=18 March 2016 | first=Dismus | last=Buregyeya |

newspaper=New Vision | location=Kampala}}

• Kyotera
• Kalisizo
• Kakuuto
• Mutukula, Uganda

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160531100127/http://www.rakai.go.ug/ Rakai District Homepage]
• [http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1432681/savers-lose-sh2bn-rakai-sembabule-sacco-fraud Savers lose over sh2bn in Rakai, Sembabule SACCO fraud]

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Category:Populated places in Central Region, Uganda

Category:Cities in the Great Rift Valley

Category:Rakai District