Uganda Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: 1,300 km, 1.000-meter gauge single track

Highways: 30 500 km total; 3,500 km paved; 7,000 km crushed stone, gravel, and laterite; remainder earth roads and tracks

Uganda

Inland waterways: Lake Victoria Lake Albert, Lake Kyoga, Lake George, lake Edward; Victoria Nile, Albert Nile; principal inland water ports are at Jinja and Port Bell, both on Lake Victoria

Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 39 total, 34 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m, 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 11 with runways 1,2202,439 m

Telecommunications: fair system with radio-relay and radio communications stations in use; 61,600 telephones (0.5 per 100 popl.); 9 AM, no FM, 9 TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT station

NOTE: The information regarding Uganda on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Uganda 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Uganda 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.