- Name: Uganda
(long form) Republic of Uganda - Capital City: Kampala (1,659,600 pop.)
- Uganda Population: 34,758,809 (2013 est.)
- World Populations (all countries)
- Currency: Uganda Shilling
(conversion rates)
1000 Ugandan Shillings - Ethnicity: Baganda 16.9%, Banyakole 9.5%,
Basoga 8.4%, Bakiga 6.9%, Iteso 6.4%, Langi 6.1%, Acholi 4.7%, Bagisu
4.6%, Lugbara 4.2%, Bunyoro 2.7%, other 29.6%
- GDP total: $51.27 billion (2012 est.)
- GDP per capita: $1,400 (2012 est.)
- Land Sizes
- Language: English (official national language,
taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers
and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the
Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the
capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages,
Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
- Largest Cities: (by population) Kampala, Gulu, Lira, Mbarara, Jinja
- Name: Meaning Buganda in Swahili, meaning 'Brothers and Sisters'
- National Day: October 9
- Religion: Roman Catholic 41.9%, Protestant 42% (Anglican 35.9%, Pentecostal 4.6%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.5%), Muslim 12.1%, other 3.1%
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