Uganda

Uganda in pictures

Flag, landscapes, landmarks and wildlife you can meet in the games. Photographs come from each subject’s Wikipedia article.

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  Flag

  Flag of Uganda

  National flag

• 🌍Murchison Falls

  Landscape

  Murchison Falls

  A real place in Uganda

• 🦍Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

  Landmark

  Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

  Home to about half the world's remaining mountain gorillas.

• 💦Murchison Falls

  Landmark

  Murchison Falls

  The whole Nile forces itself through a gap only seven metres wide.

• 🏛️Kasubi Tombs

  Landmark

  Kasubi Tombs

  A vast thatched dome where the kings of Buganda are buried.

• 🛶Ssese Islands

  Landmark

  Ssese Islands

  Forested islands with their own kingdom stories and no big predators.

• 🦍Mountain gorilla

  Wildlife

  Mountain gorilla

  Fewer than 1,100 remain, all in three neighbouring countries.

• 🦛Hippopotamus

  Wildlife

  Hippopotamus

  Hippos cannot swim — they walk and bounce along the river bed.

• 🐵Chimpanzee

  Wildlife

  Chimpanzee

  Chimps make and use tools, and each group has its own traditions.

• 🐦Shoebill

  Wildlife

  Shoebill

  A metre-tall bird with a beak shaped like a wooden shoe.

• 🐃African buffalo

  Wildlife

  African buffalo

  Herds seem to 'vote' on which way to go by the direction they stand.

• 🐗Warthog

  Wildlife

  Warthog

  It reverses into its burrow so its tusks face any visitor.

• 🐊Nile crocodile

  Wildlife

  Nile crocodile

  A mother carries her hatchlings to the water in her mouth.

• 🦔Ground pangolin

  Wildlife

  Ground pangolin

  The only mammal covered in scales, made of the same stuff as your fingernails.

• 🐒Black-and-white colobus

  Wildlife

  Black-and-white colobus

  It has no thumb, which helps it swing cleanly through the branches.

• 🐦Grey crowned crane

  Wildlife

  Grey crowned crane

  Uganda's national bird, with a golden crown of stiff feathers.

• 🦌Sitatunga

  Wildlife

  Sitatunga

  Its splayed hooves let it walk on floating swamp mats.

• 🐟Nile perch

  Wildlife

  Nile perch

  It can grow to two metres and 200 kg in Lake Victoria.

• 🦎Nile monitor

  Wildlife

  Nile monitor

  A two-metre lizard that swims well and raids crocodile nests.

• 🐈African civet

  Wildlife

  African civet

  It marks its trails with a scent once used to make perfume.

• 🦌Topi

  Wildlife

  Topi

  Males stand on mounds as lookout posts to watch their patch.

• 🦌Waterbuck

  Wildlife

  Waterbuck

  A white ring on its rump makes it easy to follow in long grass.

• 🐦Hamerkop

  Wildlife

  Hamerkop

  It builds the biggest nest of any African bird — strong enough to stand on.

• 🏙️Kampala

  City

  Kampala

  Capital of Uganda

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