Moroto is a town in Moroto District in the Northern Region of Uganda. The town serves as the location of the district headquarters.
Moroto Town - seen from Mount Moroto
Moroto Post Office, with Mount Moroto in the background
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied but generally modified equatorial climate. As of 2023, it has a population of around 49.6 million, of which 8.5 million live in the capital and largest city of Kampala.
A caesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, in the kingdom of Bunyoro (present-day Uganda) as observed by medical missionary Robert William Felkin in 1879.
Construction of the Owen Falls Dam in Jinja
The Uganda printers building on Kampala Road, Kampala, Uganda
Grey Crowned Crane – a symbol of Uganda