Our Last Country

Uganda shares borders with Sudan to the north, Kenya to the east, Lake Victoria to the southeast, Tanzania and Rwanda to the south and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west. Kampala, its capital city, is on the shores of Lake Victoria, with the Nile flowing out of the lake and traversing much of the country. Most of the country's lakes and rivers form a drainage basin for the Nile River, whose principal source is Lake Victoria. The varied scenery includes tropical forest and tea plantations on the slopes of the snowcapped Ruwenzori Mountains, the arid plains of the Karamoja, the lush, heavily populated Buganda, the rolling savannah of Acholi, Bunyoro, Tororo and Ankole, and the fertile cotton area of Teso.