Location: Eastern Africa

Geographic coordinates: 1 00 N, 32 00 E

Nationality: Ugandan

Geography: landlocked; fertile, well-watered country with many lakes and rivers

Capital: Kampala

Area: total: 236,040 sq km
land: 199,710 sq km
water: 36,330 sq km

Population: 27,269,482 (July 2005 est)

Age structure: 0-14 years: 50.1% (male 6,875,663/female 6,784,378)
15-64 years: 47.7% (male 6,511,867/female 6,494,859)
65 years and over: 2.2% (male 263,790/female 338,925)
(2005 est.)

Major towns: Arua, Gulu, Jinja, Masaka, Mbarara, Mbale, Lira, Soroti

Border countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania. Uganda is landlocked

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

Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Lake Albert 621 m
highest point: Margherita Peak on Rwenzori 5110m

Natural resources: copper, cobalt, hydropower, limestone, salt, oil, gold arable land, timber

Land use:
arable land: 25.88%
permanent crops: 10.65%
other: 63.47% (2001)

Irrigated land: 90 sq km (1998 est.)

Population growth rate: 3.31% (2005 est.)

Birth rate: 47.39 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)

Death rate: 12.8 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.) 

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