Map of Uganda

Uganda is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 1.0° N, 32.0° E. Uganda is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 5 neighbours — DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan and Tanzania — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Uganda is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Uganda is surrounded by the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Uganda covers about 241,550 km² (93,263 sq mi). That makes it the 79th-largest country in the world by area and the 32nd-largest in Africa, larger by area than 22 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 45,905,417, the 35th-largest in the world and the 10th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 3.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Uganda has an average population density of about 190 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 10th by population and 32nd by area.

The seat of government is Kampala, and the official currency is the Ugandan shilling (UGX, Sh), and the main official languages are English and Swahili. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Uganda carries the ISO country codes UG and UGA, dials on the international calling code +256 and uses the .ug internet domain.

Uganda shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are DR Congo (capital Kinshasa, about 112,832,000 people), Tanzania (capital Dodoma, about 68,153,004 people), Kenya (capital Nairobi, about 53,330,978 people), South Sudan (capital Juba, about 15,786,898 people) and Rwanda (capital Kigali, about 14,104,969 people).

By area, Uganda is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 4 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 1.0° N, 32.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Uganda within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Kampala. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Uganda lies about 111 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Uganda keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Ugandan shilling (UGX, Sh).

The official languages are English and Swahili, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +256 and websites commonly use the .ug internet domain.

In short, Uganda is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Kampala. Uganda has a population of about 45,905,417 and covers around 241,550 km² (93,263 sq mi), ranking it 35th in the world by population and 79th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Uganda.

The flag of Uganda is composed of six equal horizontal bands of black, yellow, red, black, yellow and red. A white circle bearing a hoist-side facing grey red-crested crane is superimposed in the center of the field.

The flag of Uganda is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.