Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Kampala
- Region
- Africa, Eastern Africa
- Population
- 51,384,894 (2025)
- Area
- 236,040 km²
- Currency
- Ugandan shilling (UGX)
- Languages
- English, Ganda, Swahili (macrolanguage), Arabic
- Calling code
- +256
- Internet domain
- .ug
- ISO codes
- UG, UGA, 800
- Time zone
- UTC+3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Uganda covers about 236,040 square kilometres. By area it ranks 85th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Laos and a little larger than Guyana. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania. It is landlocked, which means it has no sea coast. Its centre lies at about 1° north, 32° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 51.4 million people live in Uganda (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 31st most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.63 percent of the world's people. On average there are 218 people to each square kilometre. About 32 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 68 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English, Ganda, Swahili (macrolanguage), Arabic. A person from Uganda is called Ugandan.
Money and economy
The currency is the Ugandan shilling (code UGX, symbol Sh). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 62 billion (2025), which is about US$ 1,206 for each person (2025).
Time
Uganda uses one time zone, UTC+3:00 (Africa/Kampala). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Kampala | 1,680,600 |
| Nansana | 532,800 |
| Kira | 462,900 |
| Bunamwaya | 413,400 |
| Kyengera | 285,400 |
| Kasangati | 277,685 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Eastern Africa
British Indian Ocean Territory, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.