Overview
Kampala was originally
built on seven hills, but it has expanded to cover more than the original seven hills.
The original seven hills are:
- Old Kampala Hill on which Fort Lugard was located, the first seat of the British colonial authorities in colonial Uganda.
- The second is Mengo Hill which was the then Kibuga (capital) of Buganda kingdom at the start of British colonial rule.
- The third is Kibuli Hill, that is home to the Kibuli Mosque.
- The fourth is Namirembe Hill, that was home to the Anglican (Wangeleza) faction of the Buganda religious wars of 1888 to 1892 and site of Namirembe Anglican Cathedral.
Info
Kampala, capital and largest city of Uganda. It occupies a series of hills at an elevation of about 3,900 feet (1,190 metres) and is situated in the southern part of the country, just north of Lake Victoria. Kampala lies just north of Mengo, the capital of the kingdom of Buganda in the 19th century.
Tour details
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Tour Type
Impression
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Price
300$ - 500$
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Categories
Destination
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Capital
Kampala
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Language
Luganda
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Currency
UGX
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Time Zone
UTC-4
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Drives on the
Left
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Calling code
+256
Kampala (,[3][4] )[3][5] is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000[6] and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Rubaga Division.
Kampala’s metropolitan area consists of the city proper and the neighboring Wakiso District, Mukono District, Mpigi District, Buikwe District and Luweero District. It has a rapidly growing population that is estimated at 6,709,900 people in 2019 by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics[7] in an area of 8,451.9 km2 (3,263.3 square miles).
In 2015, this metropolitan area generated an estimated nominal GDP of $13.80221 billion (constant US dollars of 2011) according to Xuantong Wang et al.,[8] which was more than half of Uganda’s GDP for that year, indicating the importance of Kampala to Uganda’s economy.
Kampala is reported to be among the fastest-growing cities in Africa, with an annual population growth rate of 4.03 percent,[9] by City Mayors. Mercer (a New York–based consulting firm) has regularly ranked Kampala as East Africa’s best city to live in,[10][11] ahead of Nairobi and Kigali.
