UGANDA
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UGANDA
@Uganda:Geography
Location: Eastern Africa, west of Kenya
Map references: Africa
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UGANDA - MAJOR CITIES
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Latitude, Internat'l Time
Population Longitude Phone Code Zone
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KAMPALA 459,000 0.20N, 32.35E 256-41 GMT+3
Jinja 53,000 0.27N, 33.14E 256-43 GMT+3
Masaka 29,000 0.20S, 31.44E 256- GMT+3
Mbale 28,000 1.04N, 34.12E 256-45 GMT+3
Mbarara 23,000 0.37S, 30.39E 256-485 GMT+3
Entebbe 21,000 0.04N, 32.27E 256-42 GMT+3
Tororo 18,000 0.42N, 34.12E 256-4581 GMT+3
Gulu 18,000 2.46N, 32.21E 256- GMT+3
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Area:
total area: 236,040 sq km
land area: 199,710 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Oregon
Land boundaries: total 2,698 km, Kenya 933 km, Rwanda 169 km, Sudan
435 km, Tanzania 396 km, Zaire 765 km
Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
Maritime claims: none; landlocked
International disputes: none
Climate: tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to
February, June to August); semiarid in northeast
Terrain: mostly plateau with rim of mountains
Natural resources: copper, cobalt, limestone, salt
Land use:
arable land: 23%
permanent crops: 9%
meadows and pastures: 25%
forest and woodland: 30%
other: 13%
Irrigated land: 90 sq km (1989 est.)
Environment:
current issues: draining of wetlands for agricultural use;
deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; poaching is widespread
natural hazards: NA
international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change,
Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear
Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands; signed, but not ratified -
Environmental Modification
Note: landlocked
@Uganda:People
Population: 19,573,262 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 49% (female 4,792,164; male 4,834,757)
15-64 years: 49% (female 4,802,650; male 4,704,159)
65 years and over: 2% (female 215,648; male 223,884) (July 1995 est.)
Population growth rate: 2.25% (1995 est.)
Birth rate: 48.03 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
Death rate: 24.35 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
note: Uganda is host to refugees from a number of neighboring
countries, including Zaire, Sudan, and Rwanda; probably in excess of
100,000 southern Sudanese fled to Uganda during the past year; many of
the 8,000 Rwandans who took refuge in Uganda have returned home
Infant mortality rate: 112.2 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 36.58 years
male: 36.26 years
female: 36.91 years (1995 est.)
Total fertility rate: 6.7 children born/woman (1995 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Ugandan(s)
adjective: Ugandan
Ethnic divisions: Baganda 17%, Karamojong 12%, Basogo 8%, Iteso 8%,
Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Bunyoro 3%,
Batobo 3%, European, Asian, Arab 1%, other 23%
Religions: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous
beliefs 18%
Languages: English (official), Luganda, Swahili, Bantu languages,
Nilotic languages
Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991)
total population: 56%
male: 68%
female: 45%
Labor force: 4.5 million (est.)
by occupation: agriculture over 80%
@Uganda:Government
Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Uganda
conventional short form: Uganda
Digraph: UG
Type: republic
Capital: Kampala
Administrative divisions: 39 districts; Apac, Arua, Bundibugyo,
Bushenyi, Gulu, Hoima, Iganga, Jinja, Kabale, Kabarole, Kalangala,
Kampala, Kamuli, Kapchorwa, Kasese, Kibale, Kiboga, Kisoro, Kitgum,
Kotido, Kumi, Lira, Luwero, Masaka, Masindi, Mbale, Mbarara, Moroto,
Moyo, Mpigi, Mubende, Mukono, Nebbi, Ntungamo, Pallisa, Rakai,
Rukungiri, Sototi, Tororo
Independence: 9 October 1962 (from UK)
National holiday: Independence Day, 9 October (1962)
Constitution: 8 September 1967, in process of constitutional revision
Legal system: government plans to restore system based on English
common law and customary law and reinstitute a normal judicial system;
accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
chief of state: President Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since 29
January 1986); Vice President Dr. Specioza Wandira KAZIBWE (since 18
November 1994)
head of government: Prime Minister Kintu MUSOKE (since 18 November
1994)
cabinet: Cabinet; appointed by the president
Legislative branch: unicameral
National Resistance Council: elections last held 28 March 1993 (next
to be held end of 1995); results - 284 non-partisan delegates elected
to an interim Constituent Assembly with the principal task of writing
a final draft of a new constitution for Uganda on the basis of which a
regular Constituent Assembly will be elected
note: first free and fair election in 30 years is to be held by end of
1995
Judicial branch: Court of Appeal, High Court
Political parties and leaders: only party - National Resistance
Movement (NRM), Yoweri MUSEVENI
note: Ugandan People's Congress (UPC), Milton OBOTE; Democratic Party
(DP), Paul SSEMOGEERE; and Conservative Party (CP), Joshua S.
MAYANJA-NKANGI continue to exist but are all proscribed from
conducting public political activities
Other political or pressure groups: Lord's Resistance Army (LRA);
Ruwenzori Movement
Member of: ACP, AfDB, C, CCC, EADB, ECA, FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD,
ICAO, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGADD, ILO, IMF,
INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM, ISO (correspondent), ITU, NAM, OAU, OIC,
PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO,
WMO, WTO
Diplomatic representation in US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Stephen Kapimpina KATENTA-APULI
chancery: 5911 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20011
telephone: [1] (202) 726-7100 through 7102, 0416
FAX: [1] (202) 726-1727
US diplomatic representation:
chief of mission: Ambassador E. Michael SOUTHWICK
embassy: Parliament Avenue, Kampala
mailing address: P. O. Box 7007, Kampala
telephone: [256] (41) 259792, 259793, 259795
FAX: [256] (41) 259794
Flag: six equal horizontal bands of black (top), yellow, red, black,
yellow, and red; a white disk is superimposed at the center and
depicts a red-crested crane (the national symbol) facing the staff
side
Economy
Overview: Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile
soils, regular rainfall, and sizable mineral deposits of copper and
cobalt. Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy,
employing over 80% of the work force. Coffee is the major export crop
and accounts for the bulk of export revenues. Since 1986 the
government - with the support of foreign countries and international
agencies - has acted to rehabilitate and stabilize the economy by
undertaking currency reform, raising producer prices on export crops,
increasing prices of petroleum products, and improving civil service
wages. The policy changes are especially aimed at dampening inflation
and boosting production and export earnings. In 1990-94, the economy
turned in a solid performance based on continued investment in the
rehabilitation of infrastructure, improved incentives for production
and exports, and gradually improving domestic security. The economy
again prospered in 1994 with rapid growth, low inflation, growing
foreign investment, a trimmed bureaucracy, and the continued return of
exiled Indian-Ugandan entrepreneurs.
National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $16.2 billion (1994
est.)
National product real growth rate: 6% (1994 est.)
National product per capita: $850 (1994 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5% (1994 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $365 million
expenditures: $545 million, including capital expenditures of $165
million (1989 est.)
Exports: $237 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: coffee 97%, cotton, tea
partners: US 25%, UK 18%, France 11%, Spain 10%
Imports: $696 million (c.i.f., 1993 est.)
commodities: petroleum products, machinery, cotton piece goods,
metals, transportation equipment, food
partners: Kenya 25%, UK 14%, Italy 13%
External debt: $2.9 billion (1993 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate 1.5% (1992); accounts for 5% of GDP
Electricity:
capacity: 160,000 kW
production: 780 million kWh
consumption per capita: 32 kWh (1993)
Industries: sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles, cement
Agriculture: mainly subsistence; accounts for 57% of GDP and over 80%
of labor force; cash crops - coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco; food crops
- cassava, potatoes, corn, millet, pulses; livestock products - beef,
goat meat, milk, poultry; self-sufficient in food
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (1970-89), $145 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $1.4 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $60 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $169 million
Currency: 1 Ugandan shilling (USh) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Ugandan shillings (USh) per US$1 - 1,195 (December
1994), 1,195.0 (1993), 1.133.8 (1992), 734.0 (1991), 428.85 (1990),
223.1 (1989)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
@Uganda:Transportation
Railroads:
total: 1,300 km single track
narrow gauge: 1,300 km 1.000-m-gauge
Highways:
total: 26,200 km
paved: 1,970 km
unpaved: gravel, crushed stone 5,849 km; earth, tracks 18,381 km
Inland waterways: Lake Victoria, Lake Albert, Lake Kyoga, Lake George,
Lake Edward; Victoria Nile, Albert Nile; principal inland water ports
are at Jinja and Port Bell, both on Lake Victoria
Ports: Entebbe, Jinja, Port Bell
Merchant marine:
total: 3 roll-on/roll-off cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
5,091 GRT/NA DWT
Airports:
total: 29
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 3
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 9
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 6
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 9
@Uganda:Communications
Telephone system: NA telephones; fair system
local: NA
intercity: microwave and radio communications stations
international: 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) earth station
Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 10, FM 0, shortwave 0
radios: NA
Television:
broadcast stations: 9
televisions: NA
@Uganda:Defense Forces
Branches: Army, Navy, Air Wing
Manpower availability: males age 15-49 4,231,019; males fit for
military service 2,298,654 (1995 est.)
Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $55 million, 1.7% of
budget (FY93/94)
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