About Me
Name:
Republic of Uganda
PRESIDENT:
Yoweri Museveni
Capital:
Kampala
Size:
241,040 sq. km. (93,070 sq. mi.)
Major Languages:
Luganda, English,
and Swahili
Religions: 66% christian,
16% Muslim,
18% traditional
and other
MOTTO:
FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY
UGANDAN ANTHEM:
Oh Uganda! may God uphold thee,
We lay our future in thy hand.
United, free,
For liberty
Together we'll always stand.
Oh Uganda! the land of freedom.
Our love and labour we give,
And with neighbours all
At our country's call
In peace and friendship
we'll live.
Oh Uganda! the land that
feeds usBy sun and fertile soil
grown.
For our own dear
land,
We'll always stand:
The Pearl of Africa's Crown.
Africans of three main
ethnic groups--Bantu,
Nilotic, and
Nilo-Hamitic--constitute
most of the population.
The Bantu are the most
numerous and include the
Baganda, which, with 18%
of the population,
constitute the largest
single ethnic group.
Individual ethnic groups
in the
southwest include the
Banyankole and Bahima, 10%;
the Bakiga, 8%; the
Banyarwanda, 6%; the Bunyoro,
3%; and the Batoro, 3%.
Residents of the north,
largely Nilotic, include
the Langi, 6%, and the
Acholi, 4%.
In the northwest
are the Lugbara, 4%,
and the
Karamojong, 2%,
occupy the
considerably drier,
largely pastoral
territory
in the northeast.
The Basoga, 8%,
are among ethnic
groups in the east.
Europeans, Asians,
and Arabs make up about 1%
of the population with
other groups
