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Uganda (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 02 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 2.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 033 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 33.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area was home of early Niger-Kordofanian populations; was center of important native kingdom; Bantu Cweźi kings were overthrown by Luo in 16th century; visited by Arab traders in 1830s; British explorers and missionaries arrived in mid-19th century; official languages are English and Swahili, though Luganda and other Bantu and Nilotic languages are also spoken. |
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| Uganda (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Uganda (Quechuan)
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| Uganda (Tagalog)
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| Uganda (Maltese)
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| Uganda (Uzbek)
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| Uganda (Vietnamese)
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| Uganda (Ilocano)
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| Uganda (Indonesian)
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| Uganda (Bambara)
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| Uganda (Croatian)
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| Uganda (Bosnian)
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| Uganda (Latin)
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| Uganda (Latvian)
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| Uganda (Lingala)
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| Uganda (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Uganda (Danish)
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| Uganda (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Uganda (Finnish)
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| Uganda (Swedish)
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| Uganda (Polish)
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| Uganda (Portuguese)
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| Uganda (Romanian)
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| Uganda (Slovak)
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| Uganda (Slovene)
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| Uganda (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Uganda (Catalan)
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| Uganda (Basque)
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| Uganda (Aragonese)
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| Uganda (Asturian)
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| Uganda (Akan)
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| Uganda (Scots Gaelic)
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| Uganda (Welsh)
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| Uganda (German)
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| Uganda (Low German)
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| Uganda (Albanian)
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| Uganda (Czech)
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| Uganda (Afrikaans)
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| Uganda (Galician)
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| Uganda (Faroese)
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| Uganda (Italian)
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| Uganda (Ligurian)
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| Uganda (Piemontese)
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| Uganda (Lithuanian)
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| Uganda (Estonian)
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| Uganda (Greenlandic)
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| Uganda (Turkish)
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| Uganda (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Uganda (Romansh)
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| Uganda (Kikuyu)
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| Uganda (Luba-Katanga)
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| Uganda (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Uganda (North Ndebele)
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| Uganda (Norwegian)
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| Uganda (Pampanga)
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| Uganda (Northern Sami)
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| Uganda (Shona)
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| Uganda (Swahili (generic))
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| Uganda (Ido)
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| Uganda (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Republic of Uganda (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Jamhuri ya Uganda (C,V)
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| Ouganda (C,O,Breton)
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| Ouganda (Cornish)
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| Ouganda (French-P,U,N)
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| République de l'Ouganda (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Uganda (C,O)
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| Уганда (C,O,Tajik)
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| Уганда (Serbian)
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| Уганда (Macedonian)
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| Уганда (Bulgarian)
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| Уганда (Russian-P,U)
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| Уганда (Ukrainian)
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| Уганда (Belarusian)
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| Республика Уганда (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 乌干达 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 乌干达共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| أوغيدا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً أوغيدا (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| UGA (C,O,ISO3L)
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| UG (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO800 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Ugandan (C,O,English,U,A)
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| אוגנדה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| i-Uganda (C,U,Zulu)
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| ʻIukanitā (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Lugandayän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Oeganda (C,U,Dutch)
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| Oganda (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Oganda (Occitan)
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| Oganda (Arpitan)
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| Orílẹ́ède Uganda (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Ubugande (C,U,Rundi)
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| Ugaanda (C,U,Somali)
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| Ûganda (C,U,Kurdish)
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| U-gan-đa (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Úganda (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Úganda (Icelandic)
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| Ugandäa (C,U,Sangho)
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| Uganda nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Uganda Protectorate (C,U)
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| Ugando (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Unganndaa (C,U,Fulah)
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| Uqanda (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Yuganda (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Yuganda (Hausa)
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| អ៊ូហ្កង់ដា (C,U,Khmer)
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| ዩጋንዳ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ዩጋንዳ (Amharic)
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| يوګانډا (C,U,Pashto)
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| Ουγκάντα (C,U,Greek)
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| ประเทศยูกันดา (C,U,Thai)
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| ອູການດາ (C,U,Lao)
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| اوگاندا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| உகாண்டா (C,U,Tamil)
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| უგანდა (C,U,Georgian)
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| ウガンダ (C,U,Japanese)
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| Уґанда (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| اوغندا (C,U,Arabic)
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| യുഗാണ്ട (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ئۇگاندا (C,U,Uyghur)
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| युगांडा (C,U,Marathi)
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| युगांडा (Hindi)
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| أوغندا (C,U,Arabic)
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| 우간다 (C,U,Korean)
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| ཨུ་གན་ད། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| Ուգանդա (C,U,Armenian)
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| యుగాండా (C,U,Telugu)
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| युगाण्डा (C,U,Nepali)
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| یوگانڈا (C,U,Urdu)
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| યુગાંડા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ಉಗಾಂಡಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ئوگاندا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ยูกันดา (C,U,Thai)
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| ယူဂန္ဒာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| ウガンダ共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ཡུ་གན་ཌ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| यूगांडा (C,U,Hindi)
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| উগান্ডা (C,U,Bengali)
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| ଉଗାଣ୍ଡା (C,U,Odia)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence in 1962 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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established 1967 |
| controlled region (H) |
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British, 1860s-1962 |
| protectorate (H) |
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British, 1894-1962 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Kampala .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, Africa, Uganda, Kampala) [7000862] |
| historical connection .... |
British East Africa .......... (former territory/colony/dependent state) |
| ........................................ |
(World, Africa) [8711612] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
| ................ |
(World) [7005615] |
| ................ |
joined association in 1962 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
| ................ |
(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1962 |
| successor of .... |
Buganda .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
| ...................... |
(World, Africa) [6001006] |
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