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Buganda is a Bantu kingdom within Uganda. The kingdom of the Baganda people, Buganda is the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day East Africa, consisting of Uganda's Central Region, including the Ugandan capital Kampala. The 14 million Baganda (singular Muganda; often referred to simply by the root word and adjective, Ganda) make ...
Buganda grew rapidly in power in the eighteenth and nineteenth century becoming the dominant kingdom in the region. Buganda started to expand in the 1840s, and used fleets of war canoes to establish "a kind of imperial supremacy" over Lake Victoria and the surrounding regions. Subjugating weaker peoples for cheap labor, Buganda grew into a ...
Uganda is located in southeast Africa between 1º S and 4º N latitude, and between 30º E and 35º E longitude. Its geography is very diverse, consisting of volcanic hills, mountains, and lakes. The country sits at an average of 900 meters above sea level. Both the eastern and western borders of Uganda have mountains.
Kasubi Tombs. The Kasubi Tombs in Kampala, Uganda, is the site of the burial grounds for four kabakas (kings of Buganda) and other members of the Baganda royal family. As a result, the site remains an important spiritual and political site for the Ganda people, as well as an important example of traditional architecture.
Bulange Mengo the headquarters of Buganda kingdom . One of the most notable sites is the Kasubi Tombsa UNESCO World Heritage Site and the burial grounds of the Buganda kings. The Independence Monument, located in the heart of Kampala, is a symbol of Uganda’s freedom from colonial rule.
Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi: Kampala: 2001 1022; i, iii, iv, vi (cultural) The tombs of the kings, or kabakas, of the Buganda kingdom, founded in the 13th century, are located on the hillside in Kampala. They are an important spiritual site of the Baganda. The main building was built in 1882 as a palace and converted into a tomb in 1884.
UG-C. HDI (2019) 0.605 [3] medium · 1st. The Central region is one of the four regions in the country of Uganda. [1] As of Uganda's 2014 census, the region's population was 9,529,227. [2] It is coterminous with the Kingdom of Buganda, one of the ancient African monarchies that are constitutionally recognised in Uganda.
The geology of Uganda extends back to the Archean and Proterozoic eons of the Precambrian, and much of the country is underlain by gneiss, argillite and other metamorphic rocks that are sometimes over 2.5 billion years old. Sedimentary rocks and new igneous and metamorphic units formed throughout the Proterozoic and the region was partially ...