Tooro sub-region





Tooro sub-region is a region in Uganda that is coterminous with Tooro Kingdom in Western Uganda.

Administrative divisions
As of 2019, the districts that constitute the Tooro sub-region include the following:


 * Bunyangabu District (formerly part of Kabarole District until 2017)
 * Kabarole District
 * Kamwenge District (formerly part of Kabarole District until 2000)
 * Kyegegwa District (formerly part of Kyenjojo District until 2009)
 * Kyenjojo District (formerly part of Kabarole District until 2000)
 * Kitagwenda District (formerly part of Kamwenge District until 2019)

Prior to 1993, the Tooro sub-region also included the following, which are now part of Rwenzururu sub-region:


 * Bundibugyo District (formerly part of Kabarole District [then known as Tooro District] until 1974)
 * Kasese District (formerly part of Kabarole District [then known as Tooro District] until 1974)
 * Ntoroko District (formerly part of Bundibugyo District until 2010)

History
In 1967, Milton Obote abolished the Uganda traditional monarchies. When Yoweri Museveni restored them in 1993, the sub-region had shrunk to its present size after Obudhingiya bwa Bwamba in Bundibugyo district and Obusinga bwa Rwenzururu in Kasese district became independent. The sub-region was home to an estimated 2 million people in 2002.