Toro sub-region
# Toro sub-region

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

## Administrative divisions

As of 2019, the districts that constitute the Toro 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 Toro sub-region also included the following, which are now part of Rwenzururu sub-region:

* Bundibugyo District (formerly part of Kabarole District [then known as Toro District] until 1974)
* Kasese District (formerly part of Kabarole District [then known as Toro 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 1 million people in 2002, according to the national census conducted that year.

