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COUNTRY FACTS: UGANDA
Name(official): Republic of Uganda
Name(short): Uganda
Capital City: Kampala
Location: Eastern Africa, west of Kenya.
Coordinate: 1 00 N, 32 00 E
Independence: (From Britain) October 9th; 1962
President: Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI
Type of Government: Republic
Total Area: 236 040sq.km.
Population: 28 195 754 (July 2006 est.)
People: Baganda 17%, Ankole 8%, Basoga 8%, Iteso 8%, Bakiga 7%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Batoro 3%, Bunyoro 3%, Alur 2%, Bagwere 2%, Bakonjo 2%, Jopodhola 2%, Karamojong 2%, Rundi 2%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 8%.
Religion: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 18%
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 .
Literacy: 69.9%total, 79.5%male, 60.4%female (2003)
Currency: Ugandan shilling (UGX)
GDP(per capita): $1 88 (2005)
Arable Land: 21.57% (2005)
Agriculture: coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), potatoes, corn, millet, pulses, cut flowers; beef, goat meat, milk, poultry.
Natural resources: Copper, cobalt, hydropower, limestone, salt, arable land
Embassy in Japan: Embassy of the Republic of Uganda,
Chancery: 9-23, Hatiyama-cho, Shibuya-ku.
Post Code: 150-0035, Tel. 03-3462-7107
Emabassy of the Republic of Uganda, Tokyo.
General Info:
International Phone Code: +256

ECONOMY: BUSINESS, TRADE AND INVESTMENT

MAJOR CITIES

Arua, Kampala, Entebe, Fort Portal, Jinja, Gulu, Lira, Masaka, Mbale, Mbarara, Moroto, Soroti

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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

GOVERNMENT: ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS

56 districts; Adjumani, Apac, Arua, Bugiri, Bundibugyo, Bushenyi, Busia, Gulu, Hoima, Iganga, Jinja, Kabale, Kabarole, Kaberamaido, Kalangala, Kampala, Kamuli, Kamwenge, Kanungu, Kapchorwa, Kasese, Katakwi, Kayunga, Kibale, Kiboga, Kisoro, Kitgum, Kotido, Kumi, Kyenjojo, Lira, Luwero, Masaka, Masindi, Mayuge, Mbale, Mbarara, Moroto, Moyo, Mpigi, Mubende, Mukono, Nakapiripirit, Nakasongola, Nebbi, Ntungamo, Pader, Pallisa, Rakai, Rukungiri, Sembabule, Sironko, Soroti, Tororo, Wakiso, Yumbe
Note: As of a July 2005, 13 new districts were reportedly added bringing the total up to 69; the new districts are Amolatar, Amuria, Budaka, Butaleja, Ibanda, Kaabong, Kabingo, Kaliro, Kiruhura, Koboko, Manafwa, Mityana, Nakaseke; a total of nine more districts are in the process of being added.

GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS

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