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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Uganda 
  n  :  a  landlocked  republic  in  East  Africa  [syn:  {Uganda}] 
 
  From  The  CIA  World  Factbook  (1995)  [world95]: 
 
  Uganda 
 
  Uganda:Geography 
 
  Location:  Eastern  Africa,  west  of  Kenya 
 
  Map  references:  Africa 
 
  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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