Nansana
Nansana is a town in the Central Region of Uganda.

Nansana is a town in the Central Region of Uganda. It is located in Wakiso District and is one of the five municipalities in the district. Nansana is a municipal council comprising four Divisions; Nansana Division, Nabweru Division, Gombe Division, and Busukuma Divisions. The four Divisions are considered as lower local government independent units.
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Worth seeing in and around Nansana
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Kasubi Tombs
The Kasubi Tombs in Kampala, Uganda, is the site of the burial grounds for four kabakas and other members of the Baganda royal family. As a result, the site remains an important spiritual and political site for the Ganda people, as well as an important example of traditional architecture.
4.7 km · Grass thatched round house containing the tombs and insignia of Mutesa I, and three northern subsequent rulers of Buganda · Wikipedia - 02Makerere University
Makerere University is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922, and the oldest currently active university in East Africa. It became an independent national university in 1970.
5.4 km · public university in Kampala, Uganda · Wikipedia - 03Nakivubo Stadium
Hamz Stadium, Nakivubo War Memorial Grounds, formerly referred to as Nakivubo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kampala, Uganda. The Hamz Stadium is used mostly for association football and also sometimes for basketball.
7.7 km · stadium in Uganda · Wikipedia - 04Uganda Museum
The Uganda Museum is located in Kampala, Uganda. It displays and exhibits ethnological, natural-historical and traditional life collections of Uganda's cultural heritage.
6.8 km · museum in Kampala, Uganda · Wikipedia - 05Lugogo Cricket Oval
Lugogo Stadium, also known as Lugogo Cricket Oval, is a cricket ground in Kampala, Uganda. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1957 when Kenya Asians played Sunder Cricket Club.
9.4 km · cricket ground in Kampala, Uganda · Wikipedia - 06National Library of Uganda
The National Library of Uganda was established by an Act of Parliament in 2003, replacing the Public Libraries Board which was established in 1964. It is the legal deposit library for Uganda and was under the directorship of Gertrude Kayaga Mulindwa.
6.9 km · national library · Wikipedia - 07Uganda Management Institute
Uganda Management Institute is a government-owned national center for training, research, and consultancy in the field of management and administration in Uganda. It is one of the nine public universities and degree-awarding institutions in the country outside the military.
9 km · public university in Kampala, Uganda · Wikipedia - 08Rubaga Cathedral
Saint Mary's Cathedral Lubaga, commonly referred to as Lubaga Cathedral, is the parent cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala, the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in Uganda. It is the home church of the Archbishop of Kampala.
7.3 km · Catholic cathedral in Uganda · Wikipedia - 09Muteesa II Stadium
Mutesa II Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kampala, Uganda. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home venue of Express FC of the Ugandan Super League.
8.1 km · building in Africa · Wikipedia - 10Namirembe Cathedral
Saint Paul's Cathedral Namirembe, commonly and locally referred to as Namirembe Cathedral, is the oldest Anglican cathedral in Uganda. It serves as the provincial cathedral of the Anglican Church of Uganda and the diocesan cathedral for Namirembe Diocese, the first diocese to be founded in the Church of Uganda province in 1890.
6.4 km · Anglican Cathedral in Kampala, Uganda · Wikipedia
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Getting to Nansana
- Airports
- Entebbe (EBB), 37 km · Kisumu (KIS), 250 km
- Stations
- Kampala Airport, 8.3 km
- Kisumu → Nansana254 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · KSh1,600–2,130
- Eldoret → Nansana305 km · quickest by road, 6h 16m · KSh1,650–2,200
- Mwanza → Nansana323 km · quickest by air, 8h 10m · TSh215,360–331,970
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Nansana
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nansana. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inLong-distance buses and minibuses connect Kampala and other towns with destinations throughout Uganda and neighbouring countries.
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Next door to Nansana
Nansana is 8 km from Kampala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kampalacapital and the largest city of Uganda8.1 km
- Kampala Districtdistrict in Uganda6.7 km
- Wakiso Townhuman settlement in Uganda6.5 km
- Kirekaplace in Wakiso District, Uganda3.7 km
- Kawandatown in Wakiso District, Uganda6.4 km