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Otuke

place in Uganda

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ6696899 ↗
Source-derived summary

Otuke is a town in Otuke District, Lango sub-region, in Northern Uganda. It is the chief municipal, administrative and commercial center of the district and the district headquarters are located in the town. The district is named after the town.

Location

Otuke is located 66 kilometres (41 mi) east of Lira, the largest city in the sub-region and 310 kilometres (190 mi), north of Kampala, Uganda's capital and its largest city. The coordinates of Otuke are:2°26'39.0"N, 33°30'10.0"E (Latitude:2.444175; Longitude:33.502766).

Population

The population of the town of Otuke is approximately 161,000.

Editorial summary

“Otuke” enters the record as place in Uganda. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Otuke, place and Uganda can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 90-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Otuke, place and Uganda.
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“Otuke” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Otuke, place and Uganda provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6696899. Authority coordinates are 2.500, 33.500. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Otuke” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.