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Jinja station with a Uganda Railways diesel locomotive. Man walking below the train bridge. Jinja is a major station on the Uganda Railway and is a port for Lake Victoria ferries. [citation needed] Jinja Airport, a small civilian and military airport, [55] is located at Kimaka, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of Jinja's central business district.
Jinja District is bordered by Kamuli District to the north, Luuka District to the east, Mayuge District to the south-east, Buvuma District to the south, Buikwe District to the west, and Kayunga District to the north-west. The district headquarters at Buwenge [1] are located 96 kilometres (60 mi) east of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest ...
The power station lies across the Victoria Nile, about 15.5 kilometres (10 mi) north-west of the central business district of the city of Jinja and immediately north of the former location of the Bujagali Falls. [3] It is at the border between Buikwe District to the west and Jinja District to the east. The coordinates of Bujagali Power Station ...
The power station is located at Kimaka, a northern suburb of Jinja, in Jinja District, in the Eastern Region of Uganda, approximately 5.5 kilometres (3 mi) northwest of the central business district of the city of Jinja.
The Source of the Nile Bridge, also New Jinja Bridge, which was commissioned on 17 October 2018, by the President of Uganda, is a cable-stayed bridge across the Victoria Nile in Uganda. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It replaced the Nalubaale Bridge , which was built in 1954.
The Owen Falls was a waterfall on the White Nile in Uganda near the city of Jinja.The falls, together with the nearby Ripon Falls, were submerged in 1954 with the completion of the Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station.
Jinja may refer to: Jinja, Uganda, a city in eastern Uganda close to the source of the Nile River Jinja District, Uganda, named after the above city; Shinto shrine, also called a "jinja", a structure that houses one or more Shinto kami (spirits or phenomena) Jinja (template engine), for the Python programming language
Bujagali Falls (also spelled Budhagali) was a waterfall near Jinja in Uganda where the Nile River comes out of Lake Victoria, sometimes considered the source of the Nile. Starting November 2011, the falls were submerged by the new Bujagali Power Station .