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Uganda (nation)
Coordinates:
Lat: 02 00 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 2.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 033 00 00 E degrees minutes Long: 33.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Area was home of early Niger-Kordofanian populations; was center of important native kingdom; Bantu Cweźi kings were overthrown by Luo in 16th century; visited by Arab traders in 1830s; British explorers and missionaries arrived in mid-19th century; official languages are English and Swahili, though Luganda and other Bantu and Nilotic languages are also spoken.
Names:
Uganda (preferred C ,V ,English-P ,U ,N )Uganda Quechuan )Uganda Tagalog )Uganda Maltese )Uganda Uzbek )Uganda Vietnamese )Uganda Ilocano )Uganda Indonesian )Uganda Bambara )Uganda Croatian )Uganda Bosnian )Uganda Latin )Uganda Latvian )Uganda Lingala )Uganda Magyar (Hungarian) )Uganda Danish )Uganda Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Uganda Finnish )Uganda Swedish )Uganda Polish )Uganda Portuguese )Uganda Romanian )Uganda Slovak )Uganda Slovene )Uganda Spanish-P ,U ,N )Uganda Catalan )Uganda Basque )Uganda Aragonese )Uganda Asturian )Uganda Akan )Uganda Scots Gaelic )Uganda Welsh )Uganda German )Uganda Low German )Uganda Albanian )Uganda Czech )Uganda Afrikaans )Uganda Galician )Uganda Faroese )Uganda Italian )Uganda Ligurian )Uganda Piemontese )Uganda Lithuanian )Uganda Estonian )Uganda Greenlandic )Uganda Turkish )Uganda Norwegian (Bokmål) )Uganda Romansh )Uganda Kikuyu )Uganda Luba-Katanga )Uganda Malay (macrolanguage) )Uganda North Ndebele )Uganda Norwegian )Uganda Pampanga )Uganda Northern Sami )Uganda Shona )Uganda Swahili (generic) )Uganda Ido )Uganda Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) )Republic of Uganda (C ,V ,O ,English ,U ,N )Jamhuri ya Uganda (C ,V )Ouganda (C ,O ,Breton )Ouganda Cornish )Ouganda French-P ,U ,N )République de l'Ouganda (C ,O ,French ,U ,N )República de Uganda (C ,O )Уганда (C ,O ,Tajik )Уганда Serbian )Уганда Macedonian )Уганда Bulgarian )Уганда Russian-P ,U )Уганда Ukrainian )Уганда Belarusian )Республика Уганда (C ,O ,Russian ,U )乌干达 (C ,O ,Chinese-P ,U )乌干达共和国 (C ,O ,Chinese ,U )أوغيدا (C ,O ,Arabic-P ,U )جُهور ةً أوغيدا (C ,O ,Arabic ,U )UGA (C ,O ,ISO3L )UG (C ,O ,ISO2L )ISO800 (C ,O ,ISO3N )Ugandan (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )אוגנדה (C ,U ,Hebrew )i-Uganda (C ,U ,Zulu )ʻIukanitā (C ,U ,Tonga (Tonga Islands) )Lugandayän (C ,U ,Volapük )Oeganda (C ,U ,Dutch )Oganda (C ,U ,Malagasy )Oganda Occitan )Oganda Arpitan )Orílẹ́ède Uganda (C ,U ,Yoruba )Ubugande (C ,U ,Rundi )Ugaanda (C ,U ,Somali )Ûganda (C ,U ,Kurdish )U-gan-đa (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Úganda (C ,U ,Irish Gaelic )Úganda Icelandic )Ugandäa (C ,U ,Sangho )Uganda nutome (C ,U ,Ewe )Uganda Protectorate (C ,U )Ugando (C ,U ,Esperanto )Unganndaa (C ,U ,Fulah )Uqanda (C ,U ,Azerbaijani )Yuganda (C ,U ,Ganda (Ugandan language) )Yuganda Hausa )អ៊ូហ្កង់ដា (C ,U ,Khmer )ዩጋንዳ (C ,U ,Tigrinya )ዩጋንዳ Amharic )يوګانډا (C ,U ,Pashto )Ουγκάντα (C ,U ,Greek )ประเทศยูกันดา (C ,U ,Thai )ອູການດາ (C ,U ,Lao )اوگاندا (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )உகாண்டா (C ,U ,Tamil )უგანდა (C ,U ,Georgian )ウガンダ (C ,U ,Japanese )Уґанда (C ,U ,Ukrainian )اوغندا (C ,U ,Arabic )യുഗാണ്ട (C ,U ,Malayalam )ئۇگاندا (C ,U ,Uyghur )युगांडा (C ,U ,Marathi )युगांडा Hindi )أوغندا (C ,U ,Arabic )우간다 (C ,U ,Korean )ཨུ་གན་ད། (C ,U ,Tibetan )Ուգանդա (C ,U ,Armenian )యుగాండా (C ,U ,Telugu )युगाण्डा (C ,U ,Nepali )یوگانڈا (C ,U ,Urdu )યુગાંડા (C ,U ,Gujarati )ಉಗಾಂಡಾ (C ,U ,Kannada )ئوگاندا (C ,U ,Kurdish )ยูกันดา (C ,U ,Thai )ယူဂန္ဒာ (C ,U ,Burmese )ウガンダ共和国 (C ,U ,Japanese )ཡུ་གན་ཌ། (C ,U ,Tibetan )यूगांडा (C ,U ,Hindi )উগান্ডা (C ,U ,Bengali )ଉଗାଣ୍ଡା (C ,U ,Odia )
Hierarchical Position:
Place Types:
nation (preferred C ) ............ gained independence in 1962
primary political unit (C )
independent sovereign nation (C )
republic (C ) ............ established 1967
controlled region (H ) ............ British, 1860s-1962
protectorate (H ) ............ British, 1894-1962
independent political entity (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Kampala .................. (World, Africa, Uganda, Kampala) [7000862]
historical connection .... British East Africa ........................................ (World, Africa) [8711612]
member of .... Commonwealth of Nations ................ (World) [7005615] ................ joined association in 1962
member of .... United Nations ................ (World) [7029605] ................ joined organization in 1962
successor of .... Buganda ...................... (World, Africa) [6001006]
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