Uganda Overview

The Republic of Uganda, officially known as the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked landlocked country located in the eastern part of the African continent. The border neighbors of the country are South Sudan in the north, Kenya in the east, Tanzania in the south, mostly with Lake Victoria, Rwanda in the southwest and Congo in the west. The capital city of the country is Kampala.

It is located in the Kingdom of Buganda, which is an autonomous kingdom in the country.

A Brief History of Uganda

The country takes its name from the Kingdom of Buganda, an autonomous kingdom located in the southeast region of Uganda. In Buganda, where Bantu groups live, the prefix that comes to the basic word (here Ganda) in the spoken Bantu language could change the meaning of the word. According to this, Buganda was defined as the place where the people of Baganda lived and spoke Lugandad. Since the first contact of Europeans with the region and the people of Uganda was through the coasts of Tanzania, these regions were named Uganda by the Europeans because the suffix Uön was used instead of the Bu-prefix, which means that the Swahili language spoken in this region lives.

Geography in Uganda

Characteristics of Uganda geography include lakes, the Nile River (White Nile River), deep forests, and savanna. The Equator line runs through the southern part of the country. The deepest point of Uganda is the White Nile riverbed, which is 610 m above sea level. The highest point of the country is Margherita Peak, the extreme point of Stanley Mountain, which is located in the Ruwenzori Range and has a height of 5.109 m on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A large part of the country's land consists of plateaus at an average altitude of 1,000 m above sea level.

The country is the 31st largest country in Africa and 80th in the world with a surface area of ​​241,038km². Uganda has a total of 2,698km of border, 765km of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 933km of Kenya, 169km of Rwanda, 435km of South Sudan and 396km of Tanzania. Since the country is a continental country, it has no coast on open seas.

Climate in Uganda

The tropical climate prevails throughout the country. However, since the country's lands have an average of 1.000 m, the warmth created by the tropical climate cannot be felt and a cool air prevails. For this reason, neither an extreme temperature nor an extreme cold can be mentioned. Air temperatures across Uganda are measured between 25 ° C and 30 ° C during the day and around 17 ° C at night. The most extreme temperatures measured in the country are between 10 ° C and 35 ° C. Especially in the northeastern part of the country, a semi-arid climate is experienced. In this climate type, the evaporation rate is higher than the annual average precipitation rate. Annual rainfall averages varied between 1,000mm and 1,500mm in previous years, and there were only two dry periods covering December-February and June-August. However, nowadays, especially in the northern regions, there are sections that do not rain for years, and only one period of the rainy season can be seen.

Coffee Production in Uganda

Coffee cultivation in Uganda takes place around 190,000 hectares of robusta and 33,000 hectares of arabica. Coffee production, which is one of the most important export items of the country, is shaped as the production of robusta in the basin of Arabica and Lake Victoria in the foothills of Elgon Mountain. Qualified Arabica trees have these characteristics aromatically as they are generally in cocoa, banana and peanut agricultural areas.