Uganda: Transportation#
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 1 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 1 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 41,812 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 23,472 mt-km (2015) |
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| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | 5X (2016) |
| Airports | 47 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 5 over 3,047 m: 3 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 42 over 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 8 914 to 1,523 m: 26 under 914 m: 7 (2013) |
| Railways | total: 1,244 km narrow gauge: 1,244 km 1.000-m gauge (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 20,000 km (excludes local roads) paved: 3,264 km unpaved: 16,736 km (2011) |
| Waterways | (there are no long navigable stretches of river in Uganda; parts of the Albert Nile that flow out of Lake Albert in the northwestern part of the country are navigable; several lakes including Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga have substantial traffic; Lake Albert is navigable along a 200-km stretch from its northern tip to its southern shores) (2011) |
| Ports and terminals | lake port(s): Entebbe, Jinja, Port Bell (Lake Victoria) |