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Geography and Environment: Uganda

Includes online maps, links to other map collections, flags, climate, weather, natural resources.

Created and maintained by the
 African & Middle Eastern Division,
Collections and Services Directorate

The Budongo Forest Project (http://www.budongo.org)
"The Budongo Forest Project was set up as a conservation and research project in 1990. This website provides information about the Budongo Forest and the work of the Project."

Development Gateway Country Overview (http://www.developmentgateway.org/)
"The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty." Search by development projects as well as by country to identify additional web sites and documents.

Global gazetteer (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/)
An online gazetteer searchable by country and then by place. Results give longitude, latitude, and altitude of each location.

Historical Flags of Uganda (http://www.readysoft.es/flags/uganda.htm)
Offers the many flags used by the Buganda kingdom as well as modern Uganda.

The Impenetrable Forest (http://impenetrableforest.tripod.com/)
"An unforgettable story of Uganda's endangered mountain gorillas and the human cultures that surround them."

International Weather From WeatherHub (http://www.weatherhub.com/global/)
An English language home page providing links to sites offering international weather information by city.

MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/)
General site for maps. Search by country and by city.

Maps.com (formerly Magellan Geographix) (http://www.maps.com/)
User may view samples of the wide variety of maps available as well as order maps or atlases, by downloading, or on CD-ROM or in hard copy.

National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) (http://www.nemaug.org/)
"NEMA is the principal agency responsible for the management of the environment in Uganda and coordinates, monitors and supervises all activities in this field."

UT library online, Perry-Castañeda (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html)
The University of Texas' Perry Castaneda Library Map collection here offers a variety of historical, geological and political maps of many countries.

United Nations Cartographic Section (http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm)
Available in English or French versions. Offers detailed maps of many countries.

United States. Library of Congress Country Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/)
A series published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Studies Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army.

United States. Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division (http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/)
Website of one of the largest map repositories in the world.

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