Uganda

Uganda

Uganda ranks 113th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Jordan, Nepal, and Somalia. Memorable people born in present day Uganda include Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and Milton Obote. Memorable people who died in Uganda include Yonatan Netanyahu, Charles Lwanga, and Tito Okello. Uganda has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels.

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied equatorial climate. As of 2024, it has a population of 49.3 million, of whom 8.5 million live in the capital and largest city, Kampala. Read more on Wikipedia