21 Facts About Kampala

Kampala is reported to be among the fastest-growing cities in Africa, with an annual population growth rate of 4.

Kampala originally referred to only the present-day Old Kampala hill, on whose summit Fort Lugard was located, and the initial headquarters of the British colonial authorities in the soon to be Uganda Protectorate.

In 1895, Mengo Senior School, the first school offering Western education in Kampala, was opened by the Church Missionary Society at Namirembe hill, where mostly the children of chiefs and pages of the royal palaces were students.

In 1931, the Uganda Railway line reached Kampala, connecting Kampala to Mombasa Port, thirty-five years after the commencement of its construction.

Ernst May's plan of 1947 was intended to extend Kampala eastwards covering Kololo Hill and Naguru Hill, and with the commercial centre on the southern slopes of Nakasero Hill, an industrial zone in the southeast of Kampala, and, for the first time, a planned residential zone for the Ugandan natives.

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In 1968, six years after Uganda attained independence, the boundaries of Kampala were expanded incorporating the Kibuga, Kawempe and Nakawa Townships, and areas including Muyenga and Ggaba.

In 1972, the fourth physical plan for Kampala was made covering the newly incorporated areas of Kampala's boundary extensions of 1968, but the subsequent political and economic turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s meant the plan was never implemented.

Similarly, the fifth physical plan for Kampala, made in 1994, like the 1972 plan, was never implemented.

Kampala was originally built on seven hills, but it has expanded to cover more than the original seven hills.

Kampala is located on the East African Plateau between the two arms of the East African Rift and on the northern limits of Tanzania Craton.

Kampala has a tropical rainforest climate under the Koppen-Geiger climate classification system.

Facet of Kampala's weather is that it features two annual wetter seasons.

Pre-primary education is offered only by private entities which are located in the various neighborhoods of Kampala, and is lightly regulated by the Ministry of Education and Sports and starts from age of 6 weeks.

Education in Kampala city is provided by a vast number of public and private institutions offering a wide range of educational training that includes pre-primary, primary, secondary, vocational, technical undergraduate and post-graduate education.

Kampala has a number of both primary and secondary schools in every parish that are mostly privately owned and a handful that are state-owned and are lightly regulated by the City Education directorate and Ministry of Education and Sports.

Kampala has a number of both private and state institutions offering training in a broad range of fields as indicated in the table below:.

Kampala, being the capital city and economic engine of Uganda, has a diverse ethnic population drawn from all parts of the country and from neighboring countries such as Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, and even from countries as far away as India and China.

Kampala is home to the City Oilers, one of East Africa's top basketball club teams.

Kampala is served by Entebbe International Airport, which is the largest airport in Uganda.

In early 2007, it was announced that Kampala would remove commuter taxis from its streets and replace them with a comprehensive city bus service.

Kampala has a concession to provide public transport in the city for the next five years.