Kashasha

Country Tanzania

Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Postcode

35524

Kashasha Kata ya Kashasha
Ward
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Coordinates: 1°45′28″S 31°36′57″E / 1.75778°S 31.61583°E / -1.75778; 31.61583
Country	Tanzania
Region	Kagera Region
District	Muleba District
Ward	Kashasha
Population  (2016)[1]: 139
• Total	12,508
Time zone	UTC+3 (EAT)
Postcode	35524

Kashasha is a ward on the western coast of Lake Victoria in the Muleba District of the Kagera Region, Tanzania, near the border of Uganda. The village is known for having been the locus of the Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962.^[2]

In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 12,508 people in the ward, from 11,021 in 2012.^{[1]: 139 [3]: 166}