Kampala

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Location of Kampala within Uganda

Location of Kampala within Uganda

Basic data
city Kampala
Geographical location 0 ° 18 ′  N , 32 ° 38 ′  E Coordinates: 0 ° 18 ′  N , 32 ° 38 ′  E
surface 195 km²
population 1,500,080 (2014)
Population density 7,692 inhabitants / km²
medium height 1155  m
Precipitation 1,165 mm / a
Time zone UTC +3
UN / LOCODE UG KLA
Telephone code (+256) 0414

Kampala [ kamˈpaːla , engl. kæmˈpɑːlə ] is the capital of Uganda with about 1.5 million inhabitants and at the same time one of the 127 administrative units at the district level of Uganda . It is located a few kilometers from Lake Victoria .

history

The name "Kampala" is derived from Kasozi K'Empala , which means "hill of the antelopes" in the Luganda language.

Kampala grew around a fort built by Frederick Lugard in 1890 for the British East Africa Company . The central Nakasero hill in Kampala is said to have been grazed by domesticated impala antelopes , which were owned by the King of Buganda , at the time the city was founded . From 1900 to 1905 the place was the capital of the British Protectorate Uganda. In 1962, Kampala replaced Entebbe as the national capital. Large parts of the city were destroyed after the fall of the dictator Idi Amin in 1979 and in the civil war that followed, but have been rebuilt since then.

population

Kampala satellite image
The house of worship of the Bahai
Gaddafi National Mosque
View of Kampala
Kampala in the early 50s

Kampala is originally a settlement of the Luganda- speaking Baganda , who still make up a large part of the population. In addition, members of many other Ugandan ethnic groups as well as Asians and Europeans also live in the African metropolis.

year Residents
1959 census 0.046,000
1969 census 0.330,700
1980 census 0.458.503
1991 census 0.774.241
2002 census 1,208,544
2005 estimate 1,353,236
2008 estimate 1,420,000

2,843,000 people live in the agglomeration of Kampala (as of 2017). Since the population of Uganda is growing rapidly and there is also a migration to the cities, Kampala is one of the fastest growing metropolises in the world. In 2050, the agglomeration is expected to have a population of 9.4 million. For the year 2100, the forecast is even 40.1 million. Even if such long-term forecasts are subject to great uncertainties, they illustrate the enormous challenges that the city will be confronted with in the future due to its extreme demographic growth.

Culture

The Makerere University , founded in 1922, and the Kampala Technical University, founded in 1954, are based in Kampala.

Kampala has been a center of Christian mission since ancient times . An annual Marian pilgrimage takes place between the cities of Kampala and Jinja , which is regularly attended by up to 300 Christian pilgrims.

At sacred exist among others, the Roman Catholic Rubaga Cathedral and the Anglican Namirembe Cathedral, each seat of a bishop are the Islamic Kibuli Mosque, Sikh - and Hindu Temple and the only house of worship of the Bahai in Africa. With financial support from the former head of state of Libya Muammar al-Gaddafi , the great Gaddafi National Mosque was built, which can be visited. The city center can be seen from the minaret.

A few kilometers outside the center of Kampala are the Kasubi Tombs , the tombs of the kings of Buganda. In 2001 they were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. In March 2010, the central burial site burned down under previously unexplained circumstances. The capital thus lost its most important cultural and historical sight.

For 2017, ISESCO has named Kampala as the capital of Islamic culture in the African region.

economy

Among other things, furniture and machine parts are manufactured in Kampala . Agricultural exports include coffee , cotton , tea, and sugar . Kampala is also the seat of the East African Development Bank and the Uganda Communications Commission .

Uganda's international airport , Entebbe International Airport , is located in the city of Entebbe, 35 km away . It has been connected to the capital by the Entebbe-Kampala Expressway since 2018. The main port for the city is Port Bell, about 10 km away . With the Uganda Railway , built by the British colonial rulers between 1896 and 1931, there is a rail connection in the direction of Nairobi and Mombasa and thus to the Indian Ocean , other rail connections to Malaba , Kasese and Pakwach are only used for freight traffic.

A hotel belonging to the Sheraton chain is now centrally located on Nakasero Hill in the middle of the Jubilee Gardens, an extensive park.

The state-owned Kiira Motors Corporation is building Africa's first factory for electrically powered cars and buses in Kampala. The plant is expected to start producing 5,000 vehicles per year from July 2021.

climate

Due to its location near the equator, the climate is warm all year round, but not excessively hot due to the altitude.

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In Kampala there are thunderstorms on average 290 days a year , making it the area on earth with the greatest number of thunderstorms.

U.N.

Kampala is (as of June 2010) the seat of eleven “UN Agencies”, ie agencies of various organizations or programs of the United Nations.

Because of the long civil war in Uganda, some of these “agencies” are more like branches of the UN in Nairobi; the UN has an organizational unit "Kenya, Uganda and The Seychelles".

mayor

Entrance to the Ugandan Parliament

Sports

Kampala is home to the Blue Bats Kampala football club .

sons and daughters of the town

Politician

athlete

Further

  • Florence Kasumba (* 1976), German actress
  • Joseph Kizito (* 1967), Roman Catholic Bishop of Aliwal
  • Isaac Nabwana (* 1973), director and founder of the "Wakaliwood" cinema
  • John Sentamu (* 1949), Archbishop of York and Primate of England and thus the second highest dignitary of the Church of England after the Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Pilkington Ssengendo (born 1942), painter

Web links

Commons : Kampala  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Kampala  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wikivoyage: Kampala  Travel Guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ubos.org/onlinefiles/uploads/ubos/2014CensusProfiles/KAMPALA-KCCA.pdf#29
  2. ↑ 2002 and 2008 Population Estimates for Kampala . Citypopulation.de. July 1, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
  3. ↑ City Population 2100 | Sustainability Today. Retrieved July 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Africa's First Electric Bus Plant Will Industrialize Uganda While Fighting Pollution. Bloomberg, August 11, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Table: BBC Weather Kampala
  6. ↑ Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sebastian Junger, and a .: Extreme der Erde , National Geographic Germany, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-936559-31-7 , page 154
  7. ↑ United Nations Information Center in Nairobi - Kenya, Uganda and The Seychelles: UN Country team for Uganda. ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unicnairobi.org
  8. ↑ Erias Lukwago the new Kampala city mayor 2011-2016
  9. ↑ Lukwago takes Kampala Mayor seat again