| Capital: Kampala
Government: Dominant-Party Semi-Presidential Republic
Current President: Yoweri Museveni
Economy:
- Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy, employing over 80% of the work force.
- Coffee accounts for the bulk of export revenues.
Population: 44,712,143 (July 2021 est.)
Land Size: 241,038 sq km (93,072 sq miles)
Major Ethnic Groups:
- Baganda: 16.9%
- Banyakole: 9.5%
- Basoga: 8.4%
- Bakiga: 6.9%
- Iteso: 6.4%
- Langi: 6.1%
- Acholi: 4.7%
- Bagisu: 4.6%
- Lugbara: 4.2%
- Bunyoro: 2.7%
- Other: 29.6% (2002 census)
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Religions:
- Roman Catholic: 41.9%
- Protestant: 42% (Anglican: 35.9%, Pentecostal: 4.6%, Seventh-Day Adventist: 1.5%)
- Muslim: 12.1%
- Indigenous African Religions: 3.1%
- none: 0.9%
Language(s):
- English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts)
- Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school)
- other Niger-Congo languages
- Nilo-Saharan languages
- Swahili
- Arabic
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