Uganda, landlocked country on the equator in East Africa. The country contains a varied landscape of savanna, dense forests, and tall mountains, as well as almost half of Lake Victoria the largest lake in Africa, and the primary source of the Nile River.
Uganda is bordered by Kenyato the east; Sudan to the north; Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the west; and Rwanda, Tanzania and Lake Victoria to the south and southeast. Uganda has a total area of 241,038 sq km (93,065 sq mi).) The country measures 625 km (388 mi) east to west and 638 km (396 mi) north to south.
The 1991 Uganda census counted 16,671,705 people. By 2001 the population had grown to an estimated 24 million Ugandans.
Uganda is predominantly rural, with only 14 percent of the population living in urban areas.
The Ugandan economy has been based on small, African-owned farms since precolonial days. Uganda's economy collapsed during the Idi Amin regime in the 1970s. In 1972 Amin expelled the country's Asian population, which controlled most of the commerce, and distributed their businesses and property to corrupt and incompetent managers. From 1972 to 1988 the economy declined about 33 percent. The economy rebounded under President Yoweri Museveni, growing an average of 7 percent annually between 1990 and 1998. But it took until the late 1990s for the country to recover the production levels achieved before Amin seized power.
Agriculture (including forestry and fishing) makes the largest contribution to the GDP, amounting to 44 percent in 1999.