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Gulu is a district
Districts of Uganda

Uganda is divided into 80 districts across four administrative regions. Most districts are named after their main commercial and administrative towns....
 in northern Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
, taking its name from its commercial centre, the town of Gulu
Gulu

Gulu is the commercial and administrative centre of Gulu District in Uganda, located at 2?46'00N 32?16'00E, on the metre gauge railway from Tororo to Pakwach....
. It is one of three districts forming the historical homeland of the Acholi ethnic group, also known as Acholiland
Acholiland

Acholiland or "Acholi-land" is an inexact term that refers to the region traditionally inhabited by the Acholi people ethnic group in northern Uganda....
. It lies 332 km north of the capital of Kampala
Kampala

Kampala is the capital city of Uganda. With a population of 1,208,544 it is the largest city in Uganda. It is coterminous with the Kampala . The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Central, Kawempe, Makindye, Nakawa and Rubaga....
 and consists of four counties: Kilak, Achwa, Omoro, and Nwoya (Kilak and Nwoya county has been integrated to form Amuru District).






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Uganda Gulu
Gulu is a district
Districts of Uganda

Uganda is divided into 80 districts across four administrative regions. Most districts are named after their main commercial and administrative towns....
 in northern Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
, taking its name from its commercial centre, the town of Gulu
Gulu

Gulu is the commercial and administrative centre of Gulu District in Uganda, located at 2?46'00N 32?16'00E, on the metre gauge railway from Tororo to Pakwach....
. It is one of three districts forming the historical homeland of the Acholi ethnic group, also known as Acholiland
Acholiland

Acholiland or "Acholi-land" is an inexact term that refers to the region traditionally inhabited by the Acholi people ethnic group in northern Uganda....
. It lies 332 km north of the capital of Kampala
Kampala

Kampala is the capital city of Uganda. With a population of 1,208,544 it is the largest city in Uganda. It is coterminous with the Kampala . The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Central, Kawempe, Makindye, Nakawa and Rubaga....
 and consists of four counties: Kilak, Achwa, Omoro, and Nwoya (Kilak and Nwoya county has been integrated to form Amuru District). It has historically been seen as the most important and influential of the northern districts. It shares borders with seven other districts as well as Sudan
Sudan

Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
. The 2002 census put the population at 479,496. Over 90% of the population is considered to be agriculturalists. The main highway running from Kampala
Kampala

Kampala is the capital city of Uganda. With a population of 1,208,544 it is the largest city in Uganda. It is coterminous with the Kampala . The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Central, Kawempe, Makindye, Nakawa and Rubaga....
 to the north runs through Gulu District.

Gulu is the birthplace of prominent poet Okot p'Bitek
Okot p'Bitek

Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be Westernization....
. It has been the location of much of the insurgent fighting by the Lord's Resistance Army
Lord's Resistance Army

The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is a guerilla campaign waged since 1987 by the sectarian Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, operating mainly in northern Uganda, but also in South Sudan and eastern DR Congo....
 and was the birthplace of both Alice Auma
Alice Auma

Alice Auma was an Acholi people spirit-medium who, as the head of the Holy Spirit Movement, led a Millennialism rebellion against the Ugandan government forces of President Yoweri Museveni from August 1986 until November 1987....
 and Joseph Kony
Joseph Kony

Joseph Kony is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army , a guerrilla warfare group that is engaged in a violent campaign to establish theocracy government in Uganda, which claims to be based on the Christian Bible and the Ten Commandments....
. Over 90% of the population has been displaced, mostly into camps clustered around towns and trading centers. To avoid abduction by the LRA thousands of children travel from rural areas to seek refuge in towns every night. However due to the improving security situation the number of 'night commuters' fleeing every night in the district has reduced from around 25,000 in 2004 to 4000 in 2006.

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