Teso sub-region (previously known as Teso District) is a sub-region in Eastern Region, Uganda that consists of:
The sub-region is home to an estimated 2.5 million people of Iteso and Kumam ethnicity.
Include Pallisa district. As the Bagwere tribes that formed part of Pallisa then officially formed Budaka district, their (Bagwere) official home. The Iteso tribes have extended to occupy parts of Tororo district in Uganda and across to the neighbouring country of Kenya in the East.