Uganda Country Guide | Guide to Uganda

Capital: Kampala

Population: 28,816,000

Currency: Ugandan shilling (UGX)

Religions: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 18%

Government: republic

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

Climate: tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to February, June to August); semiarid in northeast

Phone Code: 256