Southern Province
Huye District
Ngoma

Butare

Butare, also known as Huye, is the third largest city of , located in the south. Butare is the capital of Butare district. It is said to have about 50,000 inhabitants.
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  • Type: City with 62,800 residents
  • Description: city in Rwanda
  • Also known as: “Astrida” and “Huye”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Butare Airport and Huye Stadium.

Aerodrome
is an airport in Butare, . It is also known as Huye Airstrip.

Stadium
Photo: Claude Nizeyimana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a multi-use in Butare, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Mukura Victory Sports FC. The stadium holds 10,000 people.

Museum
Photo: Amakuru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , formerly the National Museum of Rwanda, is a national museum in . It is located in Butare. It is owned by Institute of National Museums of Rwanda.

Butare

Latitude
-2.6053° or 2° 36′ 19″ south
Longitude
29.7402° or 29° 44′ 25″ east
Population
62,800
Elevation
1,769 metres (5,804 feet)
IATA airport code
BTQ
United Nations Location Code
RW BTQ
Open location code
6G9F9PVR+V3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435637541
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
203112
Wiki­data ID
Q509739
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Satellite Map

Discover Butare from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Butare” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Butare”
  • Arabic: “هويي”
  • Armenian: “Բուտարե”
  • Asturian: “Butare”
  • Azerbaijani: “Butare”
  • Basque: “Butare”
  • Bengali: “বুতারে”
  • Bosnian: “Butare”
  • Catalan: “Butare”
  • Chinese: “布塔雷”
  • Chinese: “阿斯特里达”
  • Croatian: “Huye”
  • Czech: “Butaré”
  • Danish: “Butare”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Butare”
  • Dutch: “Astrida”
  • Dutch: “Butare”
  • Dutch: “Huye”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هويى”
  • Estonian: “Butare”
  • Finnish: “Butare”
  • French: “Astrida”
  • French: “Butare”
  • French: “Huye”
  • German: “Astrida”
  • German: “Butare”
  • German: “Huye”
  • Greek: “Μπουτάρε”
  • Guarani: “Mbutáre”
  • Gujarati: “બુટારે”
  • Hindi: “उये”
  • Indonesian: “Butare”
  • Interlingue: “Butare”
  • Italian: “Butare”
  • Japanese: “ブタレ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೂಟಾರೆ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Butare”
  • Korean: “부타레”
  • Latvian: “Butare”
  • Lithuanian: “Butarė”
  • Malay: “Butare”
  • Marathi: “बुटारे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Butare”
  • Norwegian: “Butare”
  • Persian: “بوتیر”
  • Polish: “Butare”
  • Portuguese: “Butare”
  • Russian: “Бутаре”
  • Serbian: “Бутаре”
  • Silesian: “Butare”
  • Sinhala: “බුටාරේ”
  • Sinhala: “බුතාරේ නගරය”
  • Slovenian: “Astrida”
  • Slovenian: “Butare”
  • Slovenian: “Huye”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوتیر”
  • Spanish: “Astrida”
  • Spanish: “Butare”
  • Spanish: “Huye”
  • Swahili: “Butare”
  • Swedish: “Butare”
  • Tamil: “புதர்”
  • Telugu: “బుటారే”
  • Thai: “โบตาเรย์”
  • Turkish: “Butare”
  • Ukrainian: “Бутаре”
  • Urdu: “بوتارے”
  • Vietnamese: “Butare”
  • Vlaams: “Astrida”
  • Vlaams: “Butare”
  • Vlaams: “Huye”
  • Western Mari: “Бутаре”
  • Zulu: “Butare”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Butare”. Photo: Pierre Galinier, CC BY-SA 3.0.