Little Known Facts about Uganda

This page presents little known facts about Uganda, and will be updated whenever we come across new information.

  1. Claudius PTOLEMY, the 2nd century Greco-Roman astronomer, geographer and mathematician was one of the earliest people who started speculating about the idea of snow capped mountains and great lakes being found in the East African interior, including the possibility that the source of river Nile, the longest river in the world, might be found in these lands (Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania). See here for more information
  2. Uganda was designated by the British colonial office as a possible Jewish settlement in the early 1900s following requests by Zionist Philosopher Theodor HERZL to find urgent solutions to the plight of the Jewish people in Eastern Europe at the time – see here for more information
  3. River Nile is often associated with Egypt, but few people know that its journey into the Mediterranean Sea actually starts in this small central East African country
  4. Geographically, Uganda is actually located in Central Africa, but colonial geography puts it in East Africa, see here on the map of Africa