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Makerere, Kampala — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Makerere is a Kampala neighbourhood on one of the seven hills of the city's founding, and it holds the Makerere University Zoological Museum.
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Where to stay in Makerere
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
A room in Makerere sits on one of Kampala's original seven hills rather than in the centre, with the Makerere University Zoological Museum the one named collection inside the neighbourhood. Kampala carries the beds. Staying down in the city puts more rooms in reach and leaves Makerere hill as a trip out.
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Makerere occupies one of the seven hills Kampala was founded across, and the Zoological Museum stands inside it.Find hotels in Makererestays wanting the capital's room supply with Makerere hill kept to a morningKampala
Kampala spread from seven original hills, Makerere among them, and holds the rooms the neighbourhood itself does not.Find hotels in KampalaHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Makerere
What are the main landmarks in Makerere?
Makerere's tally stops at one museum. The Makerere University Zoological Museum is the single landmark recorded here, a Makerere University collection standing on the hill that the neighbourhood shares its name with. Everything else belongs to Kampala, whose founding hills Makerere was one of in the early 1900s.
What is the history of Makerere?
Kampala was founded across seven hills in the early 1900s, and Makerere was one of them, giving its name to the hill, to the neighbourhood on it and to the university collection recorded there. The rest is Uganda's capital growing outward. Makerere sat inside the city from that founding, and the Makerere University Zoological Museum is what the record keeps from the years since.
Where is Makerere?
Makerere occupies one of the seven hills Kampala was founded across, a rise inside the capital of Uganda.
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What is the best area to stay in Makerere?
Makerere: visits built around the Makerere University Zoological Museum up on the hill. Kampala: stays wanting the capital's room supply with Makerere hill kept to a morning.
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Updated October 2026