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In 1912, Kampala Township received its first land-use plan and had a European and Asian population of 2,850. [22] In 1922, Kampala's oldest university, Makerere, was founded as the Uganda Technical College at the present Makerere Hill and initially offered carpentry, building construction, mechanics, arts, education, agriculture, and medicine.
1908 - Uganda Museum founded. 1910 - Goan Institute established. [1] 1911 - Kampala Club founded. [1] 1913 - Indian Association formed. [1] 1915 - Port Bell-Kampala railway begins operating. [4] 1917 - Kampala Public Library established. [1] 1921 - Central Council of Indian Associations of Uganda headquartered in Kampala. [1] 1922 Technical ...
As of 2024, it has a population of over 49 million, of which 8.5 million live in the capital and largest city, Kampala. Uganda is named after the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south, including Kampala, and whose language Luganda is widely spoken; the official language is English. The region was populated by various ...
Founded Notes Status ABC Bank (Uganda) Financials Banks Kampala: 1993 Commercial bank P A Africell: Telecommunications Mobile Telecommunications Kampala: 2014 P A Aya Group: Conglomerates - Kampala: 1999 Food and beverage, construction, hotels & resorts P A Bank of Africa Uganda Limited: Financials Banks Kampala: 1984
On 13 September 2014, the Ugandan security and intelligence services, with the assistance of the United States, identified and foiled a major terrorist attack in Kampala. They recovered suicide vests , improvised explosive devices , and small arms , and they arrested 19 people who were suspected to have had links to al-Shabaab.
Makerere (/ m ə ˈ k ɛr ər i / mə-KERR-ər-ee) [1] is a neighborhood in the city of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. The name also applies to the hill on which this neighborhood is perched; one of the original seven hills that constituted Kampala at the time of its founding, in the early 1900s.
The Central region had 54 percent of the urban population (mostly in the city of Kampala), the Northern region 17 percent, the Western region 14 percent, and the Eastern region 13 percent. [ 1 ] Population and area of regions in Uganda [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
The school was officially opened on 29 March 1906 with 21 boys. It was founded by His Majesty's Acting Commissioner of the Uganda Protectorate, George Wilson and the Church Missionary Society. It is one of the oldest schools in Uganda. The land on which it was built on was donated by the Kabaka of Buganda. The school was originally started a ...