Uganda is located in the heart of Sub-Saharan Africa and lies astride the Equator. The total area of the country is about 241,000 square kilometres of which about 44,000 are covered by fresh water bodes. Uganda is a country strategically positioned within East and Central Africa, a region that includes some of Africa’s most economically important and resource rich countries with a substantial market and great future potential.

The country is land-locked and borders the Sudan to the north, the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west, Kenya to the east, and Tanzania and Rwanda to the south.

For the visitor, Uganda offers exceptional diversity combining some of the best features that Africa has to offer. The country lies at the overlap between the tropical East African Savannah and the West African rain-forest zones. It is a country blessed with contrasting physical features ranging from extensive plains with indulating hills to snow-capped mountains, waterfalls, meandering rivers and spectacular flora and fauna. Uganda is also source of the Great River Nile and Africa’s largest fresh water lake, the Lake Victoria.

Recent Political History
Uganda has come a long way from its pre-1986 days and in many ways reflects the new face of emerging Africa. Under the firm leadership of President Yoweri Museveni, Uganda has transformed into a politically stable country with a dynamic economy based on free make principles.

Uganda’s broad-based system of government provides for a stable government committed to the development of the country. Uganda today has a strong peoples’s parliament and an independent judiciary to check on the Executive. Together, these institutions have been able to guarantee stability, thereby providing investors with a high degree of certainty for their future planning.

Kampala City
The capital of Uganda
Kampala, the capital of Uganda is a rapidly expanding cosmopolitan city with a population of 1,000,000 people.

The city takes its name from Kasozi k’mpala, “the hill of antelopes” and its origins go back to 1891 when the Kabaka of Buganda had his court on Rubaga and Mengo Hills one of the 21 hills that now make up Kampala.

The city boasts of all the modern trappings ranging from international banks, five-star hotels, first class restaurants, state of the art conference facilities to modern communications infrastructure.

Other towns in Uganda include Entebbe, home of Uganda’s International Airport and a number of hotel resorts and Jinja, the second industrial town of Uganda and the source of the Great River Nile. There are many other small upcoming towns in different parts of the country.