{"id":719,"date":"2012-11-07T14:02:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/lira-town\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:02:51","slug":"lira-town","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/lira-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Lira Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/11\/lira.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4796\" src=\"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/11\/lira.jpg\" alt=\"lira\" width=\"404\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong><br \/>\nLira Town is located approximately 110 kilometres Southeast of Gulu Town, on the highway between Gulu and Mbale and is approximately 270 Kms from Kampala City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Population<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 2011, Uganda Bureau of\u00a0\u00a0 Statistics (UBOS) estimated the mid-year population of the town at 108,600<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tourist attraction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Balonyo massacre grave is located 45 minutes from Lira Town; it is an area where 300 people killed by the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army were buried.<\/li>\n<li>Olwemy Swamp<\/li>\n<li>It is a home of hills like Amor hills, Agwang hills, Ngetta hills, Adeko hills and Labwor hills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lira Airport<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lira Airport is the largest domestic civilian airport in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education Institutions<\/strong><br \/>\nThe town has a branch of Uganda Martyrs University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location Lira Town is located approximately 110 kilometres Southeast of Gulu Town, on the highway between Gulu and Mbale and is approximately 270 Kms from Kampala City. Population In 2011, Uganda Bureau of\u00a0\u00a0 Statistics (UBOS) estimated the mid-year population of the town at 108,600 Tourist attraction Balonyo massacre grave is located 45 minutes from Lira [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-719","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Location Lira Town is located approximately 110 kilometres Southeast of Gulu Town, on the highway between Gulu and Mbale and is approximately 270 Kms from Kampala City. Population In 2011, Uganda Bureau of\u00a0\u00a0 Statistics (UBOS) estimated the mid-year population of the town at 108,600 Tourist attraction Balonyo massacre grave is located 45 minutes from Lira&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}