!Uganda Uganda is a country, Region - Eastern Africa, Capital - Kampala, Population in 2003 - 25,827,000, Population density - 109 per sq km, Surface area - 241,038 sq km, Currency - shilling. Formerly, it was a territory in East Africa along the N. and NW. shore of Victoria Nyanza, and the seat of an active mission propaganda on the part of both the Catholic and Protestant Churches; became under British protection in 1890, the capital was Mengo, became independent in 1962.