1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Uganda
Compare this sourced profile of Kampala, Uganda before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kampala—1,680,600, Africa/Kampala, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and the largest city of Uganda.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kampala is GeoNames ID 232422. Its recorded administrative path is Kampala District → Central Region → Uganda, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Kampala occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-12-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kampala ranks 267 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Uganda entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 59. Its 1,680,600 population value is 1.52 times the 1,106,700 median for the country cohort and 1.86 times the 902,588 regional median. Kampala is rank 1 among the 2 selected Uganda entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Kampala's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kampala's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nansana at 7.97 km with 532,800 recorded people; Kakamega at 241.327 km with 1,867,579 recorded people; Mwanza at 316.985 km with 1,104,521 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 309.015 km. Compared with Nansana, Kampala's recorded population is 3.15 times as large. Against Kampala, Nansana follows Wakiso District → Central Region → Uganda in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Uganda cohort, uses the shared Africa/Kampala identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kampala's. Against Kampala, Kakamega follows Kakamega County → Kenya in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Kenya cohort rather than Uganda, uses Africa/Nairobi instead of Africa/Kampala, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Kampala's. Against Kampala, Mwanza follows Nyamagana District → Mwanza → Tanzania in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Tanzania cohort rather than Uganda, uses Africa/Dar_es_Salaam instead of Africa/Kampala, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kampala's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 124 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kampala's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 232422, the coordinate pair 0.3163 / 32.5822, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 10943053 at 7.97 km bind Kampala to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kampala's reference point is 0.3163° north and 32.5822° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Kampala is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Kampala's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kampala's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kampala's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kampala, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kampala's closest other entries in this atlas are Nansana (7.97 km), Kakamega (241.327 km), Mwanza (316.985 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.