Uganda Solo Female Travel Safety Tips and Advice

On this page you will find first-hand, unbiased, and real safety tips, advice and reviews from women traveling solo, submitted directly from their personal experiences in the country.

Their opinions are unfiltered and submitted independently as part of the Solo Female Travel Safety Index, a ranking of 210 countries and regions based on how safe they are for women traveling solo.

The safety scores range from 1 to 4 with 1 being the safest and 4 being the most dangerous for solo female travelers.

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Uganda Country data

We have compiled a few data points below that can help you better understand Uganda and have more context when thinking about travel safety.

Official country name: Republic of Uganda.

Etymology: The country was named after "Buganda," a powerful East African kingdom in the 14th century, and it was adopted by the British as the designation for their East African colony in 1894. Buganda had been a powerful East African state during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Capital: Kampala.

Independence / foundation: The area attracted the attention of British explorers seeking the source of the Nile River in the 1860s.

It was declared a British protectorate in 1894 and it gained independence in 1962 with one of the more developed economies and one of the strongest education systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, but it descended within a few years into political turmoil and internal conflict that lasted more than two decades.

Population: 48 million.

Currency: Ugandan Shilling (UGX)
1 USD = 3,793 - 3,905 UGX
1 EUR = 4,123 - 4,273 UGX

Time zone: UTC+3

Languages spoken: English (official language, taught in schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages and the language used most often in the capital), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili (official), Arabic.

Religions: Protestant 45% (Anglican 32%, Pentecostal/Born Again/Evangelical 11%, Seventh Day Adventist 2%, Baptist <1%), Roman Catholic 39%, Muslim 14%, other 2%, none <1%.

Climate: Tropical climate, generally rainy with two dry seasons from December to February, and from June to August. Semiarid weather in the northeast.

Real GDP (ppp – purchasing power parity): $107.7 billion.

Real GDP per capita (ppp): $2,300.

Main airports: Entebbe International Airport.

World heritage sites in Uganda

There are over 1,100 world heritage sites spread across more than 165 countries. New ones are added every year, and some may be removed from the list for various reasons.

Number of UNESCO listed sites: 3.

Top world heritage sites:

- Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi.
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
- Rwenzori Mountains National Park.

Interesting facts about Uganda

- Part of Lake Victoria, also called Victoria Nyanza, is located in Uganda. It's the world’s second-largest freshwater lake after Lake Superior in North America.

- Almost half the world’s surviving population of mountain gorillas live in the UNESCO-listed Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda.

- Uganda is one of the best bird-watching places on the planet. The country has at least 1041 species of bird.

- Grasshoppers are widely eaten in and served as a delicacy either boiled or deep-fried.

Further reading: N/A.

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About the Solo Female Travel Safety Index

Safety matters to solo female travelers, you told us so in our annual Solo Female Travel Survey, where year after year, women prove that this is their most important concern when traveling solo.

We wanted to do something about it, so we built these country-specific pages where you can find reviews and scores for 7 key variables affecting the safety of women traveling solo.

How to use the Safety Index

On this page, you will find the country score and the personal opinions on safety of other women traveling solo.

You can sort the comments by:

• The level of experience traveling solo of the reviewer (beginner = <5 trips solo, Intermediate = 5 to 10 trips solo, Experienced = >10 trips solo).
• The age of the traveler.
• Whether they are a visitor or local.
• The date they were posted.

The safety scores range from 1 to 4 with 1 being the safest and 4 being the most dangerous for solo female travelers. 

Thus, the lower the score, the safer the country.

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