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Entebbe

city in Uganda

33km

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on Lake Victoria at the source of the Nile and home to Nile Beer

64km

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Ssese Islands

islands of Uganda

92km

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Murchison Falls National Park

along the river Nile, this excellent park offers great wildlife and bird watching and is home to the striking and powerful Murchison Falls.

235km

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city in Uganda

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capital of Rwanda

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Sights (6)

Uganda National Cultural Centre

arts organization in Uganda

5.2km

0.3158333332.58916667

Uganda Museum

Museum in Kampala, Uganda

6.9km

0.3359694432.58251111

Uganda National Mosque

building in Africa

7.4km

0.31553932.568591

National Botanical Gardens (Uganda)

The gardens are not spectacular but birdwatchers and botanist will find it interesting. The gardens host stands of large trees in a park like setting, a supposed filming site of a "Tarzan" movie, a troop of vervet and colobus monkeys, along with many kinds of birds.

31km

0.062010932.4792744

Buwama

place in Central Uganda, Uganda

64km

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Kalangala

human settlement

78km

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Kampala

Uganda
Someday we will visit Kampala or begin to dream about going there! However, for now its not on our radar. Let us know in the comments if you think that should change!

Kampala

Kampala, the City of Seven Hills, is the capital city of Uganda and is, by a very large margin, the largest city in the country. Secondary to it is Jinja to the east and Entebbe to the south. Kampala is in the south central part of Uganda, near the northern shores of Lake Victoria.

This area of numerous hills and swamps that later become known as Kampala was part of the core of the highly centralized Buganda Kingdom.

Efforts are underway to relocate heavy industry to the Kampala Business and Industrial Park, located in Namanve, Mukono District, approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) east of the city's central business district, thereby cutting down on city traffic congestion. Some of the businesses that maintain their headquarters in the city center include all of the 25 commercial banks licensed in Uganda; the New Vision Group, the leading news media conglomerate and majority owned by the government; and the Daily Monitor publication, a member of the Kenya-based Nation Media Group. Air Uganda maintained its headquarters in an office complex on Kololo Hill in Kampala. Crown Beverages Limited, the sole Pepsi-Cola franchise bottler in the country, is situated in Nakawa, a division of Kampala, about 5 kilometres (3 mi) east of the city centre.

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

29°C18
Precipitation: 71 mm

Feb

29°C18
Precipitation: 54 mm

Mar

29°C18
Precipitation: 119 mm

Apr

28°C18
Precipitation: 174 mm

May

27°C18
Precipitation: 124 mm

Jun

27°C18
Precipitation: 66 mm

Jul

27°C17
Precipitation: 56 mm

Aug

27°C17
Precipitation: 91 mm

Sep

28°C17
Precipitation: 106 mm

Oct

28°C18
Precipitation: 126 mm

Nov

27°C18
Precipitation: 152 mm

Dec

28°C18
Precipitation: 86 mm
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