title: Toro sub-region
text: # 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.
  
  