Geographical position: Uganda is located in Eastern Africa, west of Kenya.
The country’s climate is tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to February, June to August); semiarid in northeast.
Languages: 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.
Kampala is the capital of Uganda.
Surface: 236,040 sq km
Population: 27,269,482
System of government: republic
Capital: Kampala
Religion: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 18%
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