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Buganda map. It was a rich country, the most favoured part of the Lakeland, which is the most favoured part of Africa. Thanks to the great inland sea that the Ganda call Nalubaale, 'Mother of the gods', it enjoys a very reliable supply of rain.
A satellite map of Uganda. A topographic map of Uganda. Area: [3] total: 241,551 square kilometres (93,263 sq mi) land: 200,523 square kilometres (77,422 sq mi) water: 41,028 square kilometres (15,841 sq mi) Area comparative. Australia comparative: slightly larger than Victoria; Canada comparative: slightly less than half the size of the Yukon
Under British rule before 1962, the regions were functional administrative units and were called provinces, headed by a Provincial Commissioner. The central region is the kingdom of Buganda, which then had a semi-autonomous government headed by the Kabaka (king). The equivalent of the Provincial Commissioner for Buganda was called the Resident. [3]
Uganda, [b] officially the Republic of Uganda, [c] is a landlocked country in East Africa.It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania.
Map Chief town Buikwe: 250,511: 329,858: 422,771: 82: Buikwe: ... Smaller thermal power plants operate in Buganda like the heavy fuel oil-fired Namanve Power Station ...
As of 1 July 2020, Uganda is divided into 135 districts plus the capital city of Kampala, which are grouped into four geographic regions. [1] [2]Since 2005, the Ugandan government has been in the process of dividing districts into smaller units.
Culturally, Kyankwanzi is the northwestern frontier of the Buganda Kingdom, overseen from the Ssingo county seat of Mityana. Once belonging to Bunyoro, as Rugonjwa Sub-county, Nsambya Sub-county in the northwest was won by the Buganda Kingdom in the battles in the 1890s under Kabaka Mwanga II's rule. [11]
Political Power in Pre-colonial Buganda: Economy, Society and Warfare in the 19th Century (2002) Rowe, John A. "Eyewitness Accounts of Buganda History: The Memoirs of Ham Mukasa and His Generation." Ethnohistory 36 (1989): 61–71. Wrigley, C. C. "Buganda: An Outline Economic History". Economic History Review 10#1 1957, pp. 69–80 online