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Kenya and Uganda were also founding members of the original East African Community (EAC), which later collapsed due to ideological differences and territorial disputes within itself. On 7 July 2000, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania reestablished the EAC. It has contributed a great deal in improving trade and overall relations between Kenya and Uganda.
A United Nations map of Uganda Location of Uganda Uganda map of Köppen climate classification. Uganda is located in Eastern Africa, West of Kenya, South of South Sudan, East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and North of Rwanda and Tanzania.
Malaba, Uganda is a town in Tororo District in the Eastern Region of Uganda, on its eastern border with Kenya. It sits adjacent from Malaba, Kenya , across the Malaba River that marks the border between Uganda and Kenya.
The Geography of Kenya is diverse, varying amongst its 47 counties. Kenya has a coastline on the Indian Ocean, which contains swamps of East African mangroves. Inland are broad plains and numerous hills. Kenya borders South Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west, Somalia to the east, Tanzania to the south, and Ethiopia to the north.
At Busitema the road takes a right turn and travels southeastwards through Busia and enters Kenya. The road then continues southeast through Matayos and Kisian to end in Kisumu. [2] The road distance between Kakira, Uganda and Kisumu, Kenya is approximately 221 kilometres (137 mi). [3]
Migingo is a 2,000-square-metre (0.49-acre; 0.20-hectare) island in Kenya on Lake Victoria. [3] The island was the center of a low-level territorial dispute between Kenya and Uganda and is extremely densely populated. [1] Migingo is a source of fish to the Kenyan and Ugandan fishermen.
In 1927, Tanganyika entered the Customs Union of the East Africa Protectorate and the Uganda Protectorate, which eventually became the independent countries of Kenya and Uganda, and the East African Postal Union, later the East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration.
Mount Elgon National Park is a national park in Kenya and Uganda that lies 140 kilometres (87 mi) northeast of Lake Victoria. The park covers an area of 1,279 square kilometres (494 sq mi). The Ugandan part of the park covers 1,110 km 2 (430 sq mi) while the Kenyan part covers 169 km 2 (65 sq mi).