Pakwach
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Location of Pakwach within Uganda |
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| District | Pakwach |
| Geographical location | 2 ° 27 ′ N , 31 ° 30 ′ E |
| surface | ? |
| population | 17,625 (2002) |
| Population density | ? Inhabitants / km² |
| medium height | 624 m |
| Precipitation | ? mm / a |
| Time zone | UTC +3 |
| UN / LOCODE | Basement? |
| Telephone code | (+256) - |
Pakwach is a city in northwest Uganda in the Pakwach district on the western edge of the Murchison Falls National Park with 17,625 inhabitants. It lies on the Albert Nile .
Pakwach has the only bridge over the Albert Nile on which the Gulu - Arua highway crosses the river in Pakwach. The next bridge downstream is the Juba Bridge in South Sudan, 445 kilometers by road . In the direction of Kampala , the next bridge is the Victoria Nile Bridge, 110 km away, below the Karuma Falls over the Victoria Nile .
For a time it was the end point of the Tororo – Arua Mine railway , a branch line of the Uganda Railway , which today is only used as far as Opit and exclusively for freight traffic .