What every visitor should know about Uganda:
- Money
- The currency is the Ugandan shilling (UGZ).
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 2.5 out of 5 (Use caution)
Areas of concern:
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Armed robbery is rare but occurs
- Carjacking
- Banditry on rural roads
- Capital
- Kampala
- Tap water
- Very dangerous. Water-borne disease is widespread and purification is unreliable. Drink boiled or bottled water only.
Uganda facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 32,369,558
- Language
- 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
- Ethnicity
- Baganda 16.9%, Banyakole 9.5%, Basoga 8.4%, Bakiga 6.9%, Iteso 6.4%, Langi 6.1%, Acholi 4.7%, Bagisu 4.6%, Lugbara 4.2%, Bunyoro 2.7%, other 29.6%
Economy
- GDP
- US$1,100 (per capita)
- Income equality
- Moderate