Contains about half the world's remaining mountain gorillas, and a source of the Nile.
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Uganda
Republic of Uganda
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
241.55Kkmยฒ of land
$794GDP / person
KampalaCapital
- ISO codes
- UG ยท UGA
- Density
- 183 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Swahili
- Currency
- Ugandan shilling (UGX)
- Dial code
- +256
- Internet domain
- .ug
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 1.9730ยฐ N, 32.9490ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Ugandan
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $35.17B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Uganda stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
33rd
of 242 ยท 0.58% of world population
Land area
82nd
of 242 ยท 0.16% of world land
GDP per person
218th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
69th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Uganda
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 44,269,594 people, the 33rd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.58 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 241,550 kmยฒ, making it the 82nd largest country here - about 7.9 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 183 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Kampala, at 0.32ยฐ N, 32.58ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,420,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Dem. Rep. Congo, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Kampala.
The currency is the Ugandan shilling (UGX, symbol Sh).
Has 2 official languages: English and Swahili.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Kampala
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Kampala
Kampala
0.3186ยฐ N, 32.5814ยฐ E
1.42M
2
Mbale
Bungokho
1.0904ยฐ N, 34.1700ยฐ E
402.37K
3
Jinja
Jinja
0.4404ยฐ N, 33.1999ยฐ E
301.62K
4
Arua
Arua Municipality
3.0204ยฐ N, 30.9000ยฐ E
250K
5
Gulu
Aswa
2.7800ยฐ N, 32.2800ยฐ E
146.86K
6
Mbarara
Kashari
0.5996ยฐ S, 30.6500ยฐ E
83.7K
7
Bombo
Bamunanika
0.5833ยฐ N, 32.5333ยฐ E
75K
8
Masaka
Masaka
0.3296ยฐ S, 31.7300ยฐ E
65.37K
9
Fort Portal
Kabarole
0.6710ยฐ N, 30.2750ยฐ E
42.67K
10
Moroto
Moroto
2.5403ยฐ N, 34.6400ยฐ E
371
๐ Peaks
Mount Elgon
4,321 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Bwindi Gorillas
Wildlife
Roughly half the world's remaining mountain gorillas live in this single stretch of impenetrable forest.
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Uganda.