Everything you need to know about Uganda
Explore Uganda from Kampala and the Great Lakes to the Rwenzori Mountains and northeastern savannas. Place sixteen cities and towns, discover twelve sights, read ten illustrated topics with thirty answered reading questions and begin Swahili.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Uganda
Great Lakes, the Nile and highlands on both sides of the equator.
Know the shape of the country
Find sixteen cities and towns in two rounds of eight, across the Lake Victoria basin, western highlands, eastern country and northern interior. Pins mark settlement centres, separate from district boundaries. Zoom in around Kampala and Entebbe.
Places worth visiting
Essential · Heritage
Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi
A living centre of Buganda royal heritage and a World Heritage property. Reconstruction followed the 2010 fire; its cultural significance extends beyond the main thatched building.
Locate twelve selected heritage and landscape sites, from Kampala and Jinja to Bwindi, the Rwenzori and Kidepo. Large landscapes use representative pins. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Swahili with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Uganda, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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