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Uganda GEOGRAPHY
Size: 241,139 square kilometers, including
44,000
square kilometers of open water or swampland.
Topography: Mostly plateau that slopes gently
toward
north, with central downwarp occupied by Lake Kyoga.
Mountains on
east and west. Highest peak of Mount Stanley is Margherita
(5,113
meters). Approximately one-half of Lake Victoria (10,200
square
kilometers) lies within Uganda and is source of Nile
River.
Climate: Equatorial climate, moderated by
altitude.
Rainfall varies from more than 2,100 millimeters around
Lake
Victoria to about 500 millimeters in northeast. Vegetation
heaviest in south; thins to savanna and dry plains in
northeast.
Data as of December 1990
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