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10 unusual facts about Jinja


1980 Uganda National League

The 1980 Uganda National League was contested by 16 teams and was won by Nile Breweries from Jinja, while COOPS, Mbarara and Bell FC were relegated.

Gloria Kovach

Kovach has been recognized by the United Nations for her work building sustainable communities in Jinja, Uganda, and in the Czech Republic.

Jinja

Jinja, Uganda, a city in eastern Uganda close to the source of the Nile River

Jinja District, the district in Uganda named after the above city

Jinja, Uganda

The average annual household income is estimated at US $100.

In the 1950s, Manchester-based Calico Printers' Association, in association with the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC), constructed a large textile mill (Nyanza Textile Industries Limited), locally known as Nytil.

Some of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes were scattered into the source of the White Nile.

Lawrence Segawa

Lawrence Segawa (born September 10, 1984 in Jinja) is an Ugandan international footballer currently playing for Police FC Jinja.

Saba Saba

Born in Jinja, Uganda, during the dictatorship of Idi Amin, Saba Saba spent the early years of his life running from place to place with his family to avoid political turmoil and fighting.

Sumiyoshi-jinja

Sumiyoshi was one of the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) of the old Chikuzen Province.


Burundu

The Extra High Voltage (132 kV ) transmission line from Owen Falls, Jinja, Uganda crosses Burundu village on its way to Nairobi via a Sub-station at Kesses, near Eldoret.

Hiroshima to Honolulu Friendship Torii

The Hiroshima to Honolulu Friendship Torii is a half-size replica of the torii at Itsukushima Shrine (Japanese: 厳島神社 Itsukushima-jinja) located in the Mōʻiliʻili Triangle Park of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Iwama dojo

Every year on April 29 (the start of the Japanese Golden Week holiday), the annual shrine festival "Aiki Jinja Rei Taisai" (合気神社例大祭 "Grand Festival of the Aiki Shrine") is held by Oomoto priests in commemoration of Ueshiba's death on April 26, 1969.

Kasama Inari Shrine

Kasama Inari Shrine or `Kasama Jinja` is one of the three largest Inari Okami shrines in Japan, having been awarded the ancient court rank of Senior First Grade.

Minashi Shrine

The full name is Hida Ichinomiya Minashi Shrine (飛騨一宮水無神社 Hida Ichinomiya Minashi Jinja), as it was once the main shrine of Hida Province.

National Insurance Corporation

The company has a branch network in the following Ugandan towns; Arua, Busia, Fort Portal, Gulu, Jinja, Kapchorwa, Kasese, Lira, Mbarara, Malaba, Masaka, Masindi, and Mbale.

Tōgō Shrine

The Tōgō Shrine (東郷神社 Tōgō-jinja) was built in 1940 and dedicated to Gensui (or 'Marshal-Admiral') The Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō shortly after his death.

Water supply and sanitation in Uganda

In 2007 it provided services to 1.8 million people out of 2.5 million in Kampala, Jinja/Lugazi, Entebbe, Tororo, Mbale, Lira, Gulu, Masaka, Mbarara, Kabale, Kasese and Fort Portal, Bushenyi/Ishaka, Soroti Arua, Masindi, Malaba, Iganga, Hoima, and Mubende.