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BULIISA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

Publication Date: 
Saturday, September 2, 2023

Buliisa district was curved out of Masindi district in July 2006. 

The District is located in the Bunyoro( Albertine) Sub Region - Mid-western part of Uganda with its headquarters 320km from Kampala;

It borders Pakwach and Nwoya districts in the North, Masindi in the East, Hoima in the South and Democratic Republic of Congo in the west.

Size
Buliisa District covers an area of 3200 sq.kms comprised of open water and land.

It is surrounded by Lake Albert, Albert Nile, game reserves/park and Budongo forest, its vital to note that the bigger part of the land area of the district is within the Murchison falls national park, Bugungu game reserve and Budongoforest

  • -Land under forest = 320 sq.  kms
  • -Land under water =1312sq kms
  • -Land under UWA = 832sq kms
  • -Land under human settlement and grazing = 736sq kms

 

Administrative Structure 2023

 

County

1

Town council

4

Subcounty

6

Parishes

22

Wards

17

Villages

131

Cells

43

Population statistics

 

 

Number

Percentage

Total population projected for 2023/24 from the recent census 2014

171,300

 

Male

87,877

51.3%

Female

83,423

48.7%

Total number of House Holds

27177

 

Women in child bearing age

39,399

23%

Pregnant Women

8565

5%

Expected birth

8,308

4.85%

Children Under 1 year

7,366

4.30%

Children under five years

34603

20.20%

Under 15 years

78,798

46%

Youth population 18-30years

35,973

21%

Voting population 18 years and above

71,946

42%

Growth rate

 

4.8%

Location:

NB

 Buliisa District has a fully constituted District Council Headed by the District Chair Person and the political wing and the Chief Administrative Officer heading the Technical wing. All statutory bodies as mandated by law are fully operational.