Tooro sub-region

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Tooro sub-region is a region in Uganda that is coterminous with Tooro Kingdom in Western Uganda.

Administrative divisions[edit]

As of 2019, the districts that constitute the Tooro sub-region include the following:

• Bunyangabu District (formerly part of Kabarole District until 2017)
• Kabarole District
• Kamwenge District (formerly part of Kabarole District until 2000)
• Kyegegwa District (formerly part of Kyenjojo District until 2009)
• Kyenjojo District (formerly part of Kabarole District until 2000)
• Kitagwenda District (formerly part of Kamwenge District until 2019)

Prior to 1993, the Tooro sub-region also included the following, which are now part of Rwenzururu sub-region:

• Bundibugyo District (formerly part of Kabarole District [then known as Tooro District] until 1974)
• Kasese District (formerly part of Kabarole District [then known as Tooro District] until 1974)
• Ntoroko District (formerly part of Bundibugyo District until 2010)

History[edit]

In 1967, Milton Obote abolished the Uganda traditional monarchies. When Yoweri Museveni restored them in 1993, the sub-region had shrunk to its present size after Obudhingiya bwa Bwamba in Bundibugyo district and Obusinga bwa Rwenzururu in Kasese district became independent. The sub-region was home to an estimated 1 million people in 2002, according to the national census conducted that year.

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