Editing Uganda (section)

===Lakes and rivers===

Much of the south of the country is heavily influenced by one of the world's biggest lakes, Lake Victoria, which contains many islands. The most important cities are located in the south, near this lake, including the capital [[Kampala]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LccRAwAAQBAJ&dq=Jamhuri+ya+Uganda+swahili&pg=PA745 |title=Britannica Book of the Year 2014 |date=1 March 2014 |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. |isbn=978-1-62513-171-3 |page=745 |language=en |access-date=2 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227190929/https://books.google.com/books?id=LccRAwAAQBAJ&dq=Jamhuri+ya+Uganda+swahili&pg=PA745 |archive-date=27 February 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Amendment_2005">{{cite web |author=Parliament of the Republic of Uganda |date=26 September 2005 |title=Constitutional Amendment Act 2005 |url=https://www.parliament.go.ug/cmis/views/87694c9d-0255-4d29-bf41-d89407bfc287%253B1.0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426210442/https://www.parliament.go.ug/cmis/views/87694c9d-0255-4d29-bf41-d89407bfc287%253B1.0 |archive-date=26 April 2021 |access-date=28 August 2020 |website=Parliament.go.ug |publisher=Republic of Uganda |quote=§I.3:6.(2): Swahili shall be the second official language in Uganda to be used in such circumstances as Parliament may by law prescribe.}}</ref> and the nearby city of [[Entebbe]].<ref name=DataBasin/> [[Lake Kyoga]] is in the centre of the country and is surrounded by extensive marshy areas.<ref>{{Britannica|325970}}</ref>
[[File:Evening, Nile River, Uganda.jpg|thumb|Great Nile River, Uganda]]
Although landlocked, Uganda contains many large lakes. Besides Lakes Victoria and Kyoga, there are [[Lake Albert (Africa)|Lake Albert]], [[Lake Edward]], and the smaller [[Lake George (Uganda)|Lake George]].<ref name="DataBasin" /> It lies almost completely within the [[Nile]] basin. The Victoria Nile drains from Lake Victoria into Lake Kyoga and thence into Lake Albert on the Congolese border. It then runs northwards into [[South Sudan]]. An area in eastern Uganda is drained by the [[Turkwel River|Suam River]], part of the internal drainage basin of [[Lake Turkana]]. The extreme north-eastern part of Uganda drains into the Lotikipi Basin, which is primarily in Kenya.<ref name="DataBasin">{{cite web | url=http://databasin.org/maps/new#datasets=878c064ec5d8440493f9924f90b58af1 | title=Maps | website=Data Basin | access-date=14 September 2015 | archive-date=6 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906155539/http://databasin.org/maps/new#datasets=878c064ec5d8440493f9924f90b58af1 | url-status=live }}</ref>