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Uganda

Uganda was Nicknamed 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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Kampala and Entebbe.

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, the City of Seven Hills, is the capital city of Uganda 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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is a pleasant town built on the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda. offers a relaxed stop-over alternative to Kampala if you're flying into or out of Uganda, as the air is clean, the streets are safe to walk, and the old colonial gardens and parks with the lake in the background make for a serene atmosphere.

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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. This is a popular destination for backpackers for its white water rafting.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Western Uganda and Central Uganda.

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The Western Region of Uganda is one of four regions in the country of Uganda. As of Uganda's 2014 census, the Western region's population was 8,874,862.

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The Central region is one of the four regions in the country of Uganda. As of Uganda's 2014 census, the region's population was 9,529,227. It is coterminous with the Kingdom of Buganda, one of the ancient monarchies that are constitutionally recognised in Uganda.

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is a region of 7.2 million people in the north of the country.

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The Eastern region is one of four regions in Uganda. As of Uganda's 2014 census, the region's population was 9,042,422.

Uganda

Latitude of center
1.4° or 1° 24′ north
Longitude of center
32.5° or 32° 30′ east
Population
34,500,000
Area
236,040 km² (91,136 miles²)
Elevation
1,094 metres (3,589 feet)
Capital
Currency
Shilling (UGX)
Phone code
.ug
Internet domain
256
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424317406
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
226074
Wiki­data ID
Q1036
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Uganda” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Уганда”
  • Abkhazian: “Уганда”
  • Achinese: “Uganda”
  • Afrikaans: “Uganda”
  • Akan: “Uganda”
  • Albanian: “Uganda”
  • Albanian: “Ugandë”
  • Amharic: “ዩጋንዳ”
  • Amis: “Uganda”
  • Angika: “युगाण्डा”
  • Arabic: “أوغندا”
  • Arabic: “اوغندا”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية أوغندا”
  • Aragonese: “Uganda”
  • Armenian: “Ուգանդա”
  • Arpitan: “Oganda”
  • Assamese: “উগাণ্ডা”
  • Asturian: “Uganda”
  • Atayal: “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”
  • Betawi: “Uganda”
  • Bhojpuri: “युगांडा”
  • Bishnupriya: “উগান্ডা”
  • Bislama: “Uganda”
  • Bosnian: “Uganda”
  • Breton: “Ouganda”
  • Bulgarian: “Уганда”
  • Burmese: “ယူဂန္ဒာ”
  • Burmese: “ယူဂန်းဒါး”
  • Burmese: “ယူဂန်ဒါနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ယူဂန်းဒါးနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “República d’Uganda”
  • Catalan: “Uganda”
  • Cebuano: “Uganda”
  • Central Bikol: “Uganda”
  • Central Kanuri: “Uganda”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئووگاندا”
  • Chavacano: “Uganda”
  • Chechen: “Уганда”
  • Cherokee: “ᏍᎦᏚᎩ ᎾᎿ ᏳᎦᏂᏓ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏳᎦᏂᏓ”
  • Chinese: “Uganda”
  • Chinese: “Wūgāndá”
  • Chinese: “乌干达 / 烏干達”
  • Chinese: “乌干达”
  • Chinese: “乌干达共和国”
  • 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: “Republiek Uganda”
  • Dutch: “UG”
  • Dutch: “UGA”
  • Dutch: “Uganda”
  • Dzongkha: “ཡུ་གྷན་ཌ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Уганда”
  • Eastern Mari: “Уганде”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوجاندا”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Ugando”
  • Esperanto: “UG”
  • Esperanto: “Ugando”
  • Estonian: “Uganda Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Uganda”
  • Ewe: “Uganda nutome”
  • Ewe: “Uganda”
  • Extremaduran: “Uganda”
  • Farefare: “Uganda”
  • Faroese: “Uganda”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Uganda”
  • Finnish: “Uganda”
  • Finnish: “Ugandan tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Ugandatò”
  • French: “Ouganda”
  • French: “République d’Ouganda”
  • French: “République de l’Ouganda”
  • French: “UG”
  • Fulah: “Ugannda”
  • Fulah: “Unganndaa”
  • Ga: “Uganda”
  • Gagauz: “Uganda”
  • Galician: “Uganda”
  • Ganda: “Yuganda”
  • Georgian: “უგანდა”
  • German: “Republik Uganda”
  • German: “Uganda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “De Republic of Uganda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Uganda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Uganda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ugandah”
  • Gilaki: “اۊگاندا”
  • Goan Konkani: “युगांडा”
  • Greek: “Ουγκάντα”
  • Guarani: “Ugánda”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Ouganda”
  • Gujarati: “યુગાંડા”
  • Gujarati: “યુગાન્ડા”
  • Haitian: “Ouganda”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Uganda”
  • Hausa: “Uganda”
  • Hausa: “Yuganda”
  • 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 täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Uganda”
  • 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”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Uganda”
  • Kalaallisut: “Uganda”
  • Kalmyk: “Угандин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಉಗಾಂಡ”
  • Kannada: “ಉಗಾಂಡಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Afrika merwerti”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “UGA”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Uganda Respublikası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Uganda”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Африка мерўерти”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Уганда Республикасы”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Уганда”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Уганда”
  • Kashmiri: “یُگنڈا”
  • Kashmiri: “یوٗگانڑا”
  • Kazakh: “Уганда”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ូហ្គង់ដា”
  • Kikuyu: “Uganda”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ubugande”
  • Kirghiz: “Уганда”
  • Komering: “Uganda”
  • Kongo: “Uganda”
  • Korean: “우간다”
  • Kotava: “Uganda”
  • Kurdish: “Ûganda”
  • Kurdish: “ئوگاندا”
  • Ladin: “Uganda”
  • Ladino: “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: “l-Uganda”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Uganda”
  • Maltese: “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”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أوݣاندا”
  • N'Ko: “UGA”
  • N'Ko: “ߎߜ߭ߊ߲ߘߊ߫ ߞߊ߲ߓߍ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߎߜ߭ߊ߲ߘߊ߫”
  • Nauru: “Uganda”
  • Navajo: “Dééłitsiiyahʼilí Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “युगाण्डा”
  • Nepali: “युगान्डा”
  • Newari: “युगान्दा”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Yuganda”
  • North Ndebele: “Uganda”
  • Northern Frisian: “Uganda”
  • Northern Sami: “Uganda dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Ugánda dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Uganda”
  • Northern Sami: “Ugánda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Uganda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uganda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uganda”
  • Norwegian: “Uganda”
  • Novial: “Uganda”
  • Nyankole: “Uganda”
  • Obolo: “Yuganda”
  • 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: “يوګاندا”
  • 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”
  • Sinhala: “උගන්ඩාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Uganda tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Uganda”
  • Slovak: “Uganda”
  • Slovak: “Ugandská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Uganda”
  • Slovenian: “UG”
  • Slovenian: “UGA”
  • 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: “Lulu ya Afrika”
  • Swahili: “ug”
  • Swahili: “UG”
  • Swahili: “UGA”
  • Swahili: “Uganda”
  • Swati: “IBuganda”
  • Swati: “Uganda”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Uganda”
  • Swedish: “Uganda”
  • Swiss German: “Uganda”
  • Tagalog: “Uganda”
  • Tajik: “Уганда”
  • Talysh: “Uganda”
  • 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: “Cộng hoà Uganda”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Uganda”
  • 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: “Ugànda”
  • Wolof: “Ugandaa”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌干达”
  • Xhosa: “Uganda”
  • Yakut: “Уганда”
  • Yiddish: “אוגאנדע”
  • Yiddish: “אוגאַנדע”
  • Yoruba: “Uganda”
  • Yoruba: “Ùgándà”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏干達”
  • Zeeuws: “Oehanda”
  • Zhuang: “Uganda”
  • Zulu: “i-Uganda”
  • Zulu: “IYuganda”
  • “ma Ukanta”
  • “UG”
  • “UGA”
  • “Uganda”
  • “युगांडा”

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