The North-Eastern shores of lake Ngao is home to the pride of an independant state called Ukungu. Wrapped in the green of the sub-equatorial jungle lands and marshes, its villages of mostly fishermen, peasants and farmers line the coast of the second of three lakes held within the forest belt.

"Ukungu," said Kisu, "lies to the northeast, on the coast." Ukungu was a country of coast villages, speaking the same or similar dialects. It was now claimed as a part of the expanding empire of Bila Huruma.
---Explorers of Gor, 25:277-278

By the end of Explorers of Gor, Bila Huruma, Ubar of Ushindi, has returned Ukungu to its people and it stands once again as a sovereign state. There is also well underway the dream of Bila Huruma: a canal dug by the hand of man through the unforgiving marshes. The canal of Bila Huruma will or already has by now, merge lakes Ushindi and Ngao and hence open a direct route from Thassa to the Ua and beyond.

When Lakes Ushindi and Ngao had been joined by the canal a continuous waterway would be opened between Thassa and the Ua. One might then, via either the Kamba or the Nyoka, attain Lake Ushindi. One might then follow the canal from Ushindi to Ngao. From Ngao one could enter upon the Ua. One could then, for thousands of pasangs, follow the Ua until one reached its terminus in Lake Shaba. And Lake Shaba itself was fed by numerous smaller streams and rivers, each giving promise, like the tributaries of the Ua itself, to the latency of new countries. The importance of the work of Bila Huruma and Shaba, one a Ubar, the other a scribe and explorer, could not, in my opinion, be overestimated.
---Explorers of Gor, Ch57