Uganda
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- UG
- ISO alpha-3
- UGA
- ISO numeric
- 800
- FIPS 10-4
- UG
- GeoNames ID
- 226074
Key facts
- Capital
- Kampala
- Area
- 236,040 km²
- Population
- 42,723,139
- Currency
- Shilling (UGX)
- Calling code
- +256
- Top-level domain
- .ug
- Official languages
- en-UG,lg,sw,ar
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 1.25
- Longitude
- 32.5
- Min latitude
- -1.4752059939998503
- Min longitude
- 29.54845951300007
- Max latitude
- 4.219691875000095
- Max longitude
- 35.006472615000064
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/UG?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 236040,
"capital": "Kampala",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "UGX",
"iso3_code": "UGA",
"iso_code": "UG",
"name": "Uganda",
"population": 42723139
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/UG/regions/v1/cities?country=UG/v1/postal-codes?country=UG/v1/timezones?country=UG
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- أوغندا
- Chinese
- 乌干达
- English
- Uganda
- French
- Ouganda
- German
- Uganda
- Hindi
- युगांडा
- Italian
- Uganda
- Japanese
- ウガンダ
- Korean
- 우간다
- Portuguese
- Uganda
- Russian
- Уганда
- Spanish
- Uganda
- Total language variants
- 139
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Kampala | UTC+03:00 | UTC+03:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Central Region
- Western Region
- Eastern Region
- Northern Region
4 of 4 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Kampala | 1,680,600 |
| Nansana | 532,800 |
| Kira | 462,900 |
| Bunamwaya | 413,400 |
| Kyengera | 285,400 |
| Mbarara | 221,300 |
| Kasangati | 207,800 |
| Mukono | 191,300 |
| Njeru | 178,800 |
| Gulu | 177,400 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 11,455
- First-level regions
- 4
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 139
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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