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Entebbe

(Encyclopedia)Entebbe ntb´ [key], town (2002 pop. 55,086), S Uganda, on Lake Victoria, near Kampala. Located in a region producing cotton, coffee, and plantains, it is the site of a major international airpo...

Kampala

(Encyclopedia)Kampala kämpä´lä [key], city (2002 pop. 1,189,142), capital of Uganda, on Lake Victoria. It is Uganda's largest city and its administrative, communications, economic, and transportation center. Ma...

Victoria, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Victoria, Lake, or Victoria Nyanzann´z, n– [key], largest lake of Africa and the world's second largest freshwater lake, c.26,830 sq mi (69,490 sq km), E central Africa, on the Uganda-Tanza...

Rabin, Yitzhak

(Encyclopedia)Rabin, Yitzhak ytskhäk´ räbn´ [key], 1922–95, Israeli general and statesman, b. Jerusalem, the first native-born prime minister of Israel (1974–77, 1992–95). His extensive military exper...

Uganda

(Encyclopedia)Uganda yoogän´d, oogän´dä [key], officially Republic of Uganda, republic (2015 est. pop. 37,102,000), 91,133 sq mi (236,036 sq km), E central Africa. It borders on Tanzania and Rwanda in th...

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