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Uganda PHYSICAL SETTING
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Figure 3. Topography and Drainage
Location and Size
Uganda is a landlocked country astride the equator,
about 800
kilometers inland from the Indian Ocean
(see
fig. 1). It
lies on
the northwestern shores of Lake Victoria, extending from 1
south
to 4 north latitude and 30 to 35 east longitude.
Uganda is bordered by Tanzania and Rwanda to the south,
Zaire
to the west, Sudan to the north, and Kenya to the east.
With a
land surface of 241,139 square kilometers (roughly twice
the size
of the state of Pennsylvania), Uganda occupies most of the
Lake
Victoria Basin, which was formed by the geological shifts
that
created the Rift Valley during the Pleistocene era. The
Sese
Islands and other small islands in Lake Victoria also lie
within
Uganda's borders.
Data as of December 1990
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