Uganda country guide — editorial, map and photograph sources Prepared 27 October 2026 Scope Sixteen city/town learning points, twelve selected sights, ten illustrated readings and thirty answered reading questions. The guide shares its readings with Facts and links the existing Swahili course. English and Swahili are official; Uganda also has a diverse landscape of local languages. No population estimate, current officeholder, district count or new citizenship exam is claimed. Editorial references Uganda Wildlife Authority: national parks, wildlife and landscape descriptions https://ugandawildlife.org/national-parks/ Uganda Tourism Board: regional geography, culture and food https://exploreuganda.com/ US Office of the Historian: independence on 9 October 1962 and recognition https://history.state.gov/countries/uganda Constitute Project: Uganda Constitution, as amended through 2017 Articles 6 (official languages), 98 (presidency), 77 (Parliament), 246 (traditional or cultural leaders), and 2005/2017 amendment notes https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Uganda_2017 UNESCO: barkcloth making, proclaimed 2005, inscribed on the Representative List 2008 https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/barkcloth-making-in-uganda-00139 UNESCO: Uganda's three World Heritage properties https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/ug/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1022/ (Kasubi) https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/682/ (Bwindi) https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/684/ (Rwenzori) World Bank: Uganda economic context https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/uganda/overview UNHCR: refugee communities and country context https://www.unhcr.org/countries/uganda Topic-specific Wikipedia titles provide supplementary reading cards. Access during preparation Uganda Wildlife Authority, Uganda Tourism Board, UNESCO intangible heritage, US Office of the Historian and Constitute Project were accessible. UNESCO World Heritage, World Bank and Wikipedia refused automated access; UNHCR rate-limited the request. Those links are retained for readers, not described as newly fetched. The guide uses stable descriptions rather than fresh numerical estimates. Map provenance and limitations The Uganda feature is retained unchanged from public/countries.geojson, the site's Natural Earth-derived world outline (Natural Earth data: public domain, https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/). Its snapshot is committed as scripts/uganda-outline-source.geojson. Natural Earth is a generalised reference map, not a cadastral, administrative or navigation dataset. Its outline includes national lake territory and simplifies small shoreline details. City coordinates are curated approximate settlement centres (WGS84 longitude, latitude), retained with their names and learning notes in scripts/uganda-map-places.json. They are not district polygons, city boundaries, entrances or directions. Sight coordinates are retained in src/lib/country-sights/uganda.json. Large parks and mountains use representative points; the Rwenzori pin lies on the Ugandan side, separate from the shared summit. Jinja identifies the Victoria Nile outlet, not the Nile's most distant headwater. Rebuild offline: node scripts/build-uganda-map.mjs. Photographs Ten existing local photographs in public/images/facts-africa/ug are reused. Each topic in src/lib/uganda-guide-content.json retains the photographer, Creative Commons licence label and exact Wikimedia Commons file-page link from src/lib/african-facts-heroes.json. The food caption describes preparation, matching the photograph. The Murchison Falls topic photo is also the page hero. The source links and credit labels are displayed by the existing guide components.