Central Uganda
Kampala District
Kampala Capital City

Kampala

Kampala, the City of Seven Hills, is the capital city of and is, by a very large margin, the largest city in the country. Secondary to it is Jinja to the east and Entebbe to the south.
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  • Type: City with 1,520,000 residents
  • Description: capital and the largest city of Uganda
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nakivubo Stadium and National Library of Uganda.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Hamz Stadium, Nakivubo War Memorial Grounds, formerly referred to as is a multi-purpose stadium in Kampala, . The Hamz Stadium is used mostly for association football and also sometimes for basketball.

Library
Photo: Kateregga1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The was established by an Act of Parliament in 2003, replacing the Public Libraries Board itself established in 1964. It is the legal deposit library for and was under the directorship of Gertrude Kayaga Mulindwa.

Museum
Photo: Lneruba, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is located in Kampala, . It displays and exhibits ethnological, natural-historical and traditional life collections of Uganda's cultural heritage.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kololo and Katwe.

Suburb
is a hill in Kampala, the largest city and capital of . The name also applies to the upscale residential and commercial neighbourhood that sits on that hill.

Suburb
is an area in the city of Kampala, 's capital.

Suburb
is a hill and neighborhood in the centre of Kampala, the capital and largest city of . is important to Uganda's economy and politics, as it is home to Kampala's central business district and several government offices, including the Ugandan Parliament Buildings.

Kampala

Latitude
0.3177° or 0° 19′ 4″ north
Longitude
32.5814° or 32° 34′ 53″ east
Population
1,520,000
Elevation
1,223 metres (4,012 feet)
IATA airport code
KLA
United Nations Location Code
UG KLA
Open location code
6GGJ8H9J+3G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 773119937
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
232422
Wiki­data ID
Q3894
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kampala” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kampala”
  • Albanian: “Kampala”
  • Amharic: “ካምፓላ”
  • Arabic: “كامبالا”
  • Arabic: “كمبالا”
  • Aragonese: “Kampala”
  • Armenian: “Կամպալա”
  • Arpitan: “Kampala”
  • Asturian: “Kampala”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kampala”
  • Balinese: “Kampala”
  • Bashkir: “Кампала”
  • Basque: “Kampala”
  • Belarusian: “Кампала”
  • Bengali: “কাম্পালা”
  • Bosnian: “Kampala”
  • Breton: “Kampala”
  • Bulgarian: “Кампала”
  • Catalan: “Kampala”
  • Cebuano: “Kampala (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Kampala”
  • Central Kurdish: “کامپالا”
  • Chechen: “Кампала”
  • Chinese: “Kampala”
  • Chinese: “坎帕拉”
  • Chinese: “康培拉”
  • Chuvash: “Кампала”
  • Cornish: “Kampala”
  • Croatian: “Kampala”
  • Czech: “Kampala”
  • Dagbani: “Kampala”
  • Danish: “Kampala”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kampala”
  • Dinka: “Kampala”
  • Dutch: “Kampala”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كامبالا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كمبالا”
  • Esperanto: “Kampalo”
  • Estonian: “Kampala”
  • Faroese: “Kampala”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kampala”
  • Finnish: “Kampala”
  • French: “Kampala”
  • Fulah: “Kampala”
  • Ga: “Kampala”
  • Galician: “Kampala”
  • Ganda: “Kampala, Uganda”
  • Ganda: “Kampala”
  • Ganda: “Kla”
  • Georgian: “კამპალა”
  • German: “Kampala”
  • Greek: “Καμπάλα”
  • Guarani: “Kampála”
  • Gujarati: “કંપાલા”
  • Haitian: “Kanpala”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kampala”
  • Hausa: “Kampala”
  • Hebrew: “קמפלה”
  • Hindi: “कंपाला”
  • Hindi: “कम्पाला”
  • Hungarian: “Kampala”
  • Icelandic: “Kampala”
  • Ido: “Kampala”
  • Inari Sami: “Kampala”
  • Indonesian: “Kampala”
  • Interlingua: “Kampala”
  • Interlingue: “Kampala”
  • Irish: “Kampala”
  • Italian: “Kampala”
  • Japanese: “カンパラ”
  • Javanese: “Kampala”
  • Kabiyè: “Kampala”
  • Kabyle: “Kampala”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kampala”
  • Kannada: “ಕಂಪಾಲ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಂಪಾಲಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Кампала”
  • Kirghiz: “Кампала”
  • Komering: “Kampala”
  • Kongo: “Kampala”
  • Korean: “캄팔라”
  • Kotava: “Kampala”
  • Kurdish: “Kampala”
  • Latin: “Kampala”
  • Latvian: “Kampala”
  • Ligurian: “Kampàla”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Kampala”
  • Lithuanian: “Kampala”
  • Livvi: “Kampala”
  • Lombard: “Kampala”
  • Low German: “Kampala”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kampala”
  • Macedonian: “Кампала”
  • Malagasy: “Kampala”
  • Malay: “Kampala”
  • Malayalam: “കം‌പാല”
  • Maori: “Kampala”
  • Marathi: “कंपाला”
  • Mazanderani: “کامپالا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kampala”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kampala”
  • Minangkabau: “Kampala”
  • Mingrelian: “კამპალა”
  • Moksha: “Кампала”
  • Mongolian: “Кампала”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كامپالا”
  • Navajo: “Deeyisdiz Dah Shijéʼé”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kampala”
  • Northern Sami: “Kampala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kampala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kampala”
  • Norwegian: “Kampala”
  • Novial: “Kampala”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kampala”
  • Oriya: “କାମ୍ପାଲା”
  • Ossetian: “Кампалæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੰਪਾਲਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Kampala”
  • Persian: “کامپالا”
  • Piemontese: “Kampala”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kaempaala”
  • Polish: “Kampala”
  • Portuguese: “Campala”
  • Portuguese: “Kampala”
  • Pushto: “کامپالا”
  • Quechua: “Kampala”
  • Romanian: “Kampala”
  • Russian: “Кампала”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱢᱯᱟᱞᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Kampala”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kampala”
  • Serbian: “Кампала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kampala”
  • Shona: “Kampala”
  • Silesian: “Kampala”
  • Sindhi: “ڪمپالا”
  • Sinhala: “කම්පාලා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kampala”
  • Slovak: “Kampala”
  • Slovenian: “Kampala”
  • Somali: “Kambaala”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کامپالا”
  • Spanish: “Kampala”
  • Swahili: “Kampala”
  • Swedish: “Kampala”
  • Tagalog: “Kampala”
  • Tajik: “Кампала”
  • Talysh: “Kampala”
  • Tamil: “கம்பலா”
  • Tamil: “கம்பாலா”
  • Tatar: “Кампала”
  • Telugu: “కంపాలా”
  • Thai: “กัมปาลา”
  • Tibetan: “ཀམ་པ་ལ།”
  • Turkish: “Kampala”
  • Turkmen: “Kampala”
  • Tyap: “Ka̱mpala (a̱keang)”
  • Tyap: “Ka̱mpala”
  • Udmurt: “Кампала”
  • Uighur: “كامپالا”
  • Ukrainian: “Кампала”
  • Urdu: “کمپالا”
  • Uzbek: “Kampala”
  • Venetian: “Kampala”
  • Veps: “Kampal”
  • Vietnamese: “Kampala”
  • Volapük: “Kampala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kampala”
  • Welsh: “Kampala”
  • Western Frisian: “Kampala”
  • Western Mari: “Кампала”
  • Western Panjabi: “کمپالا”
  • Western Panjabi: “کمپالہ”
  • Wolof: “Kampala”
  • Wu Chinese: “坎帕拉”
  • Xhosa: “IKampala”
  • Yiddish: “קאמפאלא”
  • Yoruba: “Kampala”
  • Yue Chinese: “坎帕拉”
  • Zulu: “i-Kampala”
  • Zulu: “Kampala”
  • “Kampala”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kampala”. Photo: Nielsr, CC BY-SA 3.0.