Uganda
Uganda was called the Pearl of Africa by Winston Churchill. It is home to one of the most diverse and concentrated ranges of African fauna including the highly endangered mountain gorilla and the endangered common chimpanzee.Tap on the map to travel |
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Kampala
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Kampala, the City of Seven Hills, is the capital city of Uganda and is, by a very large margin, the largest city in the country.
Jinja
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Jinja is a city of 300,000 people in Uganda. The city is at the source of the Nile, and in Uganda more famously the source of Nile Beer.
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Northern Uganda
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Northern Uganda is a region of 7.2 million people in the north of the country.
Uganda
- Type: Country with 34,500,000 residents
- Description: country in East-central Africa
- Languages: English, Ganda, Swahili and Arabic
- Neighbors: DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan and Tanzania
- Categories: sovereign state, republic, landlocked country and locality
- Location: East Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
1.4° or 1° 24' northLongitude of centre
32.5° or 32° 30' eastPopulation
34,500,000Area
236,040 km² (91,136 miles²)Elevation
1,094 metres (3,589 feet)Capital
KampalaCurrency
Shilling (UGX)Phone code
.ugInternet domain
256OpenStreetMap ID
node 424317406OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
226074Wikidata ID
Q1036Uganda Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Uganda
- Abkhazian: Ареспублика Уганда
- Abkhazian: Уганда
- Achinese: Uganda
- Afar: Uganda
- Afrikaans: Uganda
- Akan: Uganda
- Albanian: Uganda
- Albanian: Ugandë
- Amharic: Uganda
- Amharic: ዩጋንዳ
- Amis: Uganda
- Angika: युगाण्डा
- Arabic: Uganda
- Arabic: أوغندا
- Arabic: اوغندا
- Arabic: جمهورية أوغندا
- Aragonese: Uganda
- Armenian: Ուգանդա
- Armenian: Ուկանտա
- Arpitan: Oganda
- Assamese: উগাণ্ডা
- Asturian: Uganda
- Atayal: Uganda
- Avaric: Uganda
- Avaric: Уганда
- Aymara: Uganda
- Azerbaijani: Uqanda
- Balinese: Uganda
- Bambara: Uganda
- Banjar: Uganda
- Bashkir: Уганда
- Basque: Uganda
- Bavarian: Uganda
- Belarusian: Уганда
- Belarusian: Уґанда
- Bengali: উগান্ডা
- Bhojpuri: युगांडा
- Bishnupriya: উগান্ডা
- Bislama: Uganda
- Bosnian: Uganda
- Breton: Ouganda
- Bulgarian: Уганда
- Burmese: ယူဂန္ဒာ
- Burmese: ယူဂန်ဒါနိုင်ငံ
- Burmese: ယူဂန်းဒါး
- Burmese: ယူဂန်းဒါးနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: República d'Uganda
- Catalan: Uganda
- Cebuano: Uganda
- Central Bikol: Uganda
- Central Kurdish: ئوگاندا
- Chavacano: Uganda
- Chechen: Уганда
- Chinese: Uganda
- Chinese: Wūgāndá
- Chinese: 乌干达 / 烏干達
- Chinese: 乌干达
- Chinese: 烏干達
- Chuvash: Уганда
- Cornish: Ouganda
- Corsican: Republica d'Uganda
- Corsican: Republica di l'Uganda
- Corsican: Uganda
- Crimean Tatar: Uganda
- Croatian: Uganda
- Czech: Uganda
- Dagbani: Uganda
- Danish: Uganda
- Dhivehi: ޔުގެންޑާ
- Dimli (individual language): Uganda
- Dinka: Uganda
- Dotyali: युगान्डा
- Dutch: Oeganda
- Dutch: Republiek Oeganda
- Dutch: UG
- Dutch: Uganda
- Dzongkha: ཡུ་གྷན་ཌ
- Eastern Mari: Уганда
- Eastern Mari: Уганде
- Egyptian Arabic: اوجاندا
- English: Republic of Uganda
- English: The Republic of Uganda
- English: The pearl of Africa
- English: UG
- English: UGA
- English: ug
- Esperanto: Respubliko Ugando
- Esperanto: UG
- Esperanto: Ugando
- Estonian: Uganda
- Estonian: Uganda Vabariik
- Ewe: Uganda
- Ewe: Uganda nutome
- Extremaduran: Uganda
- Farefare: Uganda
- Faroese: Uganda
- Fiji Hindi: Uganda
- Finnish: Uganda
- Finnish: Ugandan tasavalta
- French: Ouganda
- French: République d'Ouganda
- French: République de l'Ouganda
- French: UG
- Fulah: Ugannda
- Fulah: Unganndaa
- Gagauz: Uganda
- Galician: Uganda
- Ganda: Yuganda
- Georgian: უგანდა
- German: Republik Uganda
- German: Uganda
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Uganda
- Goan Konkani: युगांडा
- Greek: Ουγκάντα
- Guarani: Ugánda
- Guianese Creole French: Ouganda
- Gujarati: યુગાંડા
- Gujarati: યુગાન્ડા
- Haitian: Ouganda
- Hakka Chinese: Uganda
- Hausa: Uganda
- Hausa: Yuganda
- Hausa: ʻUgana
- Hawaiian: ʻUgana
- Hebrew: אוגנדה
- Hindi: युगांडा
- Hindi: युगाण्डा
- Hindi: यूगांडा
- Hungarian: Uganda
- Hungarian: Ugandai Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Úganda
- Ido: Uganda
- Igbo: Uganda
- Iloko: Uganda
- Inari Sami: Uganda
- Inari Sami: Uganda täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Uganda
- Interlingua: Uganda
- Interlingue: Uganda
- Irish: Uganda
- Italian: Repubblica dell'Uganda
- Italian: Uganda
- Jamaican Creole English: Yugianda
- Japanese: ウガンダ
- Japanese: ウガンダ共和国
- Javanese: Uganda
- Javanese: Ugandha
- Kabiyè: Ugandaa
- Kabyle: Uganda
- Kalaallisut: Uganda
- Kalmyk: Угандин Орн
- Kannada: ಉಗಾಂಡ
- Kannada: ಉಗಾಂಡಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Afrika merwerti
- Kara-Kalpak: UGA
- Kara-Kalpak: Uganda
- Kara-Kalpak: Uganda Respublikası
- Kara-Kalpak: Африка мерўерти
- Kara-Kalpak: Уганда
- Kara-Kalpak: Уганда Республикасы
- Kashmiri: یوٗگانڑا
- Kazakh: Уганда
- Khmer: អ៊ូហ្គង់ដា
- Kikuyu: Uganda
- Kinyarwanda: Ubugande
- Kirghiz: Уганда
- Kongo: Uganda
- Korean: 우간다
- Kotava: Uganda
- Kurdish: Ûganda
- Kurdish: ئوگاندا
- Ladin: Uganda
- Ladino: Uganda
- Lao: Uganda
- Lao: ອູການດາ
- Latin: Uganda
- Latvian: Uganda
- Lezghian: Уганда
- Ligurian: Uganda
- Limburgan: Oeganda
- Lingala: Uganda
- Lingua Franca Nova: Uganda
- Literary Chinese: 烏干達
- Lithuanian: Uganda
- Livvi: Ugandu
- Lojban: ugandas
- Lombard: Uganda
- Low German: Uganda
- Lower Sorbian: Uganda
- Luba-Katanga: Uganda
- Luxembourgish: Uganda
- Macedonian: Уганда
- Malagasy: Oganda
- Malay: Uganda
- Malayalam: ഉഗാണ്ട
- Malayalam: യുഗാണ്ട
- Maltese: Repubblika tal-Uganda
- Maltese: Uganda
- Maltese: l-Uganda
- Manipuri: ꯌꯨꯒꯥꯟꯗꯥ
- Manx: Ooganda
- Maori: Ukānga
- Marathi: युगांडा
- Mazanderani: اوگاندا
- Min Dong Chinese: Uganda
- Min Nan Chinese: Uganda
- Minangkabau: Uganda
- Mingrelian: უგანდა
- Mirandese: Uganda
- Moksha: Уганда
- Mongolian: Уганда
- Mongolian: ꯌꯨꯒꯥꯟꯗꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: أوݣاندا
- N'Ko: UGA
- N'Ko: ߎߜ߭ߊ߲ߘߊ߫
- N'Ko: ߎߜ߭ߊ߲ߘߊ߫ ߞߊ߲ߓߍ߲
- Nauru: Uganda
- Navajo: Dééłitsiiyahʼilí Bikéyah
- Nepali: युगाण्डा
- Nepali: युगान्डा
- Nigerian Pidgin: Yuganda
- North Ndebele: Uganda
- Northern Frisian: Uganda
- Northern Sami: Uganda
- Northern Sami: Uganda dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Ugánda
- Northern Sami: Ugánda dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Uganda
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Uganda
- Norwegian Bokmål: Uganda
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Uganda
- Novial: Uganda
- Occitan (post 1500): Oganda
- Occitan (post 1500): Republica d'Oganda
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܘܓܢܕܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Uganda
- Oriya: ଉଗାଣ୍ଡା
- Oromo: Yugaandaa
- Ossetian: Угандæ
- Pampanga: Uganda
- Pangasinan: Uganda
- Panjabi: ਯੁਗਾਂਡਾ
- Panjabi: ਯੂਗਾਂਡਾ
- Papiamento: Uganda
- Pedi: Uganda
- Persian: اوگاندا
- Piemontese: Uganda
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Yuganda
- Polish: Uganda
- Portuguese: República de Uganda
- Portuguese: República do Uganda
- Portuguese: Uganda
- Pushto: اوګاندا
- Pushto: يوګانډا
- Pushto: یوګانډا
- Quechua: Uganda
- Quechua: Ukhantha
- Romanian: Uganda
- Romansh: Uganda
- Rundi: Ubuganda
- Rundi: Ubugande
- Russia Buriat: Уганда
- Russian: Республика Уганда
- Russian: Уганда
- Rusyn: Уґанда
- Sakizaya: Uganda
- Samoan: Uganda
- Samogitian: Uganda
- Sango: Ugandäa
- Santali: ᱩᱜᱟᱱᱰᱟ
- Sardinian: Uganda
- Saterfriesisch: Uganda
- Scots: Uganda
- Scottish Gaelic: Uganda
- Serbian: Uganda
- Serbian: Уганда
- Serbo-Croatian: Uganda
- Shan: မိူင်းယူႇၵၼ်ႇတႃႇ
- Shona: Uganda
- Shona: Vuganda
- Sicilian: Uganna
- Silesian: Uganda
- Sindhi: يوگنڊا
- Sindhi: یوگینڊا
- Sinhala: උගන්ඩාව
- Skolt Sami: Uganda
- Skolt Sami: Uganda tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Uganda
- Slovak: Ugandská republika
- Slovenian: Uganda
- Somali: Ugaanda
- Somali: Yugandha
- South Azerbaijani: اوقاندا
- Southern Sotho: Uganda
- Spanish: República de Uganda
- Spanish: Uganda
- Sundanese: Uganda
- Swahili: Jamhuri ya Uganda
- Swahili: Uganda
- Swati: IBuganda
- Swati: Uganda
- Swedish: Republiken Uganda
- Swedish: Uganda
- Swiss German: Uganda
- Tagalog: Uganda
- Tajik: Уганда
- Talysh: Uqanda
- Tamil: உகாண்டா
- Taroko: Uganda
- Tatar: Уганда
- Telugu: ఉగాండా
- Thai: ประเทศยูกันดา
- Thai: ยูกันดา
- Tibetan: ཡུ་གན་ཌ།
- Tibetan: ཨུ་གན་ད།
- Tigrinya: ዩጋንዳ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻIukanitā
- Tosk Albanian: Uganda
- Tsonga: Uganda
- Tumbuka: Uganda
- Tunisian Arabic: أوغندا
- Turkish: Uganda
- Turkmen: Uganda
- Twi: Uganda
- Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Yuganda
- Tyap: Yuganda
- Udmurt: Уганда
- Uighur: ئۇگاندا
- Ukrainian: Республіка Уганда
- Ukrainian: Уганда
- Ukrainian: Уґанда
- Upper Sorbian: Uganda
- Urdu: یوگنڈا
- Uzbek: Uganda
- Venetian: Uganda
- Veps: Ugand
- Vietnamese: U-gan-đa
- Vietnamese: Uganda
- Vlax Romani: Uganda
- Volapük: Lugandayän
- Võro: Uganda
- Waray (Philippines): Uganda
- Welsh: Uganda
- Welsh: Wganda
- Western Armenian: Ուկանտա
- Western Frisian: Oeganda
- Western Frisian: Uganda
- Western Mari: Уганда
- Western Panjabi: یوگنڈا
- Wolof: Ugandaa
- Wolof: Ugànda
- Wu Chinese: 乌干达
- Yakut: Уганда
- Yiddish: אוגאַנדע
- Yiddish: אוגאנדע
- Yoruba: Uganda
- Yoruba: Ùgándà
- Yue Chinese: 烏干達
- Zeeuws: Oehanda
- Zhuang: Uganda
- Zulu: IYuganda
- Zulu: i-Uganda
- Uganda Protectorate
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- ئووگاندا
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