ts: 1 with runway 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: stations--1 AM, no FM, no TV; 300
radiotelephones; 4,000 radios; 108 telephones

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Police Force

_#_Manpower availability: NA

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
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_@_Uganda
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 236,040 km2; land area: 199,710 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Oregon

_#_Land boundaries: 2,698 km total; Kenya 933 km, Rwanda 169 km, Sudan
435 km, Tanzania 396 km, Zaire 765 km

_#_Coastline: none--landlocked

_#_Maritime claims: none--landlocked

_#_Climate: tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December
to February, June to August); semiarid in northeast

_#_Terrain: mostly plateau with rim of mountains

_#_Natural resources: copper, cobalt, limestone, salt

_#_Land use: arable land 23%; permanent crops 9%; meadows and
pastures 25%; forest and woodland 30%; other 13%; includes irrigated
NEGL%

_#_Environment: straddles Equator; deforestation; overgrazing; soil
erosion

_#_Note: landlocked

_*_People
_#_Population: 18,690,070 (July 1991), growth rate 3.7% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 51 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 15 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 94 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 50 years male, 52 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 7.3 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Ugandan(s); adjective--Ugandan

_#_Ethnic divisions: African 99%, European, Asian, Arab 1%

_#_Religion: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%,
rest indigenous beliefs

_#_Language: English (official); Luganda and Swahili widely used;
other Bantu and Nilotic languages

_#_Literacy: 48% (male 62%, female 35%) age 15 and over can
read and write (1990 est.)

_#_Labor force: 4,500,000 (est.); subsistence agriculture 94%, wage
earners (est.) 6%; 50% of population of working age (1983)

_#_Organized labor: 125,000 union members

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: Republic of Uganda

_#_Type: republic

_#_Capital: Kampala

_#_Administrative divisions: 10 provinces; Busoga, Central, Eastern,
Karamoja, Nile, North Buganda, Northern, South Buganda, Southern, Western

_#_Independence: 9 October 1962 (from UK)

_#_Constitution: 8 September 1967, in process of constitutio