Uganda
The Lord’s Testimony
Updated July 15, 2024
No. of localities: 2
No. of saints in church life: 136
No. of saints attending the Table meeting: 90
Country Profile
Location: East Africa, west of Kenya, east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Geographical
Size: land: 197,100 sq km, water: 43,938 sq km
Climate: tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to February, June to August); semiarid in northeast
Population: 49,283,041 (2024 est.)
Population
Growth Rate: 3.18% (2024 est.)
Ethnic groups: Baganda 16.5%, Banyankole 9.6%, Basoga 8.8%, Bakiga 7.1%, Iteso 7%, Langi 6.3%, Bagisu 4.9%, Acholi 4.4%, Lugbara 3.3%, other 32.1% (2014 est.)
Languages: English (official language, taught in 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 and the
language used most often in the capital), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili (official), Arabic
Religion: Protestant 45.1% (Anglican 32.0%, Pentecostal/Born Again/Evangelical
11.1%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.7%, Baptist .3%), Roman Catholic 39.3%, Muslim 13.7%, other 1.6%, none 0.2% (2014 est.)
Capital
City: Kampala
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