Kigezi District - Constituencies

Constituencies

Before its division into the districts shown as above, Kigezi consisted of counties of:

• Rukiga County, southeast of modern-day Kabale District, which bordered on the then Ankole District.
• Ndorwa County, this is the central area of modern-day Kabale District, where Kabale town is still located and Lake Bunyonyi is shared with the county of Rubanda.
• Rubanda County, southwest of modern-day Kabale District, bordering Kanungu District and Kisoro District and Kinkizi County, where the famous Nyamasizi Hot Springs are located.
• Kinkizi County, northwest of modern-day Kabale District. This county shares its borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It also touches on Lake Edward on the border with DRC
• Kisoro County, southwest of modern-day Kabale District, bordering with Rubanda County, the Republic of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kisoro County is the location of Lake Mutanda and Lake Kyahafi.
• Rujumbura County, which was the most northerly county of the district and bordered on the former Ankole District and on Lake Edward.

After the division of Kigezi into the four (4) current districts, they were named after their respective main towns, namely Kabale, Kanungu, Kisoro and Rukungiri.