Rwanda
Rwanda is an East African country known as the land of a thousand hills. It is easily accessible from Kenya and Uganda, and is one of the safest and most organised countries on the continent.
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Akagera National Park
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Nyamata
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Gishwaki-Mukura National Park
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Gishwati Forest is a forest in the north-western part of Rwanda, not far from Lake Kivu.
Rwanda
- Country with about 14,600,000 residents
- …has Kigali as its capital
- …uses the Franc (RWF)
- …has the phone code 250
- …uses the internet domain .rw
- …covers 26,338 km² (10,169 miles²)
- Description: country in East Africa
- Also known as“Republic of Rwanda”“Résidence du Ruanda”“Rwandese Republic”“The Land of a Thousand Hills”
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Latitude of center
-2° or 2° south
Longitude of center
29.88° or 29° 52′ 48″ east
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Rwanda” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Руанда”
- Abkhazian: “Руанда”
- Achinese: “Rwanda”
- Afrikaans: “Rwanda”
- Akan: “Rwanda”
- Albanian: “Ruanda”
- Albanian: “Ruandë”
- Amharic: “ሩዋንዳ”
- Amis: “Rwanda”
- Angika: “रवांडा”
- Arabic: “رواندا”
- Aragonese: “Ruanda”
- Armenian: “Ռուանդա”
- Arpitan: “Rouanda”
- Assamese: “ৰোৱাণ্ডা”
- Asturian: “Ruanda”
- Atayal: “Rwanda”
- Azerbaijani: “Ruanda”
- Balinese: “Rwanda”
- Bambara: “Ruwanda”
- Bambara: “Rwanda”
- Banjar: “Rwanda”
- Bashkir: “Руанда”
- Basque: “Ruanda”
- Bavarian: “Ruanda”
- Belarusian: “Руанда”
- Bengali: “রুয়ান্ডা”
- Betawi: “Ruanda”
- Bhojpuri: “रवांडा गणराज्य”
- Bhojpuri: “रवांडा रिपब्लिक”
- Bhojpuri: “रवांडा”
- Bishnupriya: “রুয়ান্ডা”
- Bislama: “Rwanda”
- Bosnian: “Ruanda”
- Breton: “Rwanda”
- Bulgarian: “Руанда”
- Burmese: “ရဝန်ဒါ”
- Burmese: “ရဝမ်ဒါနိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “República de Ruanda”
- Catalan: “Ruanda”
- Catalan: “RW”
- Catalan: “RWA”
- Catalan: “Rwanda”
- Cebuano: “Rwanda”
- Central Bikol: “Ruanda”
- Central Kanuri: “Rwanda”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕواندا”
- Chavacano: “Rwanda”
- Chechen: “Руанда”
- Chinese: “Lúwàngdá”
- Chinese: “卢旺达 / 盧安達”
- Chinese: “卢旺达”
- Chinese: “盧安達”
- Chinese: “盧旺達”
- Chuvash: “Руанда”
- Cornish: “Rwanda”
- Corsican: “Republica di u Ruanda”
- Corsican: “Ripublica di u Ruanda”
- Corsican: “Ruanda”
- Crimean Tatar: “Ruanda”
- Croatian: “Ruanda”
- Czech: “Rwanda”
- Dagbani: “Rwanda”
- Danish: “Rwanda”
- Dhivehi: “ރުވާންޑާ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Rwanda”
- Dinka: “Ruanda”
- Dotyali: “रुवान्डा”
- Dutch: “Republiek Rwanda”
- Dutch: “RW”
- Dutch: “RWA”
- Dutch: “Rwanda”
- Dzongkha: “རུ་ཝན་ཌ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ།”
- Dzongkha: “རུ་ཝན་ཌ”
- Eastern Mari: “Руанда”
- Eastern Mari: “Руанде”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رواندا”
- Esperanto: “Respubliko Ruando”
- Esperanto: “Ruando”
- Esperanto: “RW”
- Estonian: “Ruanda”
- Estonian: “Rwanda Vabariik”
- Estonian: “Rwanda”
- Ewe: “Rwanda nutome”
- Ewe: “Rwanda”
- Extremaduran: “Ruanda”
- Farefare: “Rwanda”
- Faroese: “Ruanda”
- Fiji Hindi: “Rwanda”
- Finnish: “Ruanda”
- Finnish: “Ruandan tasavalta”
- Fon: “Rwandatò”
- French: “la République du Rwanda”
- French: “République du Rwanda”
- French: “République Rwandaise”
- French: “Rwanda”
- Friulian: “Ruande”
- Fulah: “Ruwannda”
- Fulah: “Ruwanndaa”
- Gagauz: “Ruanda”
- Galician: “Ruanda”
- Ganda: “Rwanda”
- Georgian: “რუანდა”
- German: “Ruanda”
- German: “Rwanda”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Rwanda”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Rwanda”
- Gilaki: “رۊاندا”
- Greek: “Ρουάντα”
- Guarani: “Rruánda”
- Guianese Creole French: “Rwanda”
- Gujarati: “રવાંડા”
- Gujarati: “રવાન્ડા”
- Haitian: “Rwanda”
- Hakka Chinese: “Rwanda”
- Hausa: “Ruwanda”
- Hebrew: “רואנדה”
- Hindi: “रवांडा”
- Hindi: “रवाण्डा”
- Hindi: “रूआण्डा”
- Hungarian: “Ruanda”
- Hungarian: “Ruandai Köztársaság”
- Icelandic: “Rúanda”
- Ido: “Ruanda”
- Igbo: “Rwanda”
- Iloko: “Rwanda”
- Inari Sami: “Ruanda täsiväldi”
- Inari Sami: “Ruanda”
- Indonesian: “Rwanda”
- Interlingua: “Ruanda”
- Interlingue: “Rwanda”
- Irish: “Ruanda”
- Italian: “Ruanda”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Ruanda”
- Japanese: “ルワンダ”
- Japanese: “ルワンダ共和国”
- Javanese: “Rwanda”
- Kabiyè: “Ruwandaa”
- Kabyle: “Rwanda”
- Kalaallisut: “Rwanda”
- Kalmyk: “Руһандин Орн”
- Kannada: “ರುವಾಂಡಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Ruanda”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Руанда”
- Karekare: “Ruwànda”
- Kashmiri: “روانٛڈا”
- Kashmiri: “روٗوانڈا”
- Kazakh: “Руанда”
- Khmer: “រវ៉ាន់ដា”
- Kikuyu: “Rwanda”
- Kinyarwanda: “Igihugu cy’imisozi igihumbi”
- Kinyarwanda: “Republika y’u Rwanda”
- Kinyarwanda: “Repubulika y’u Rwanda”
- Kinyarwanda: “Rwanda”
- Kinyarwanda: “U Rwanda”
- Kirghiz: “Руанда”
- Komering: “Ruwanda”
- Komering: “Rwanda”
- Komi-Permyak: “Руанда”
- Kongo: “Rwanda”
- Korean: “르완다 공화국”
- Korean: “르완다”
- Kotava: “Rwanda”
- Kurdish: “Rwanda”
- Ladin: “Ruanda”
- Ladino: “Ruanda”
- Ladino: “Rwanda”
- Lao: “ຣວັນດາ”
- Latin: “Ruanda”
- Latvian: “Ruanda”
- Ligurian: “Ruanda”
- Limburgan: “Rwanda”
- Lingala: “Rwanda”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Ruanda”
- Lithuanian: “Ruanda”
- Livvi: “Ruanda”
- Lombard: “Ruanda”
- Low German: “Ruanda”
- Low German: “Rwanda”
- Lower Sorbian: “Ruanda”
- Luba-Katanga: “Rwanda”
- Luxembourgish: “Ruanda”
- Macedonian: “Руанда”
- Malagasy: “Roanda”
- Malay: “Rwanda”
- Malayalam: “റുവാണ്ട”
- Maltese: “ir-Rwanda”
- Maltese: “Repubblika tar-Rwanda”
- Maltese: “Rwanda”
- Manipuri: “ꯔꯋꯥꯟꯗꯥ”
- Manx: “Rooandey”
- Maori: “Rāwana”
- Marathi: “ऱ्वांडा”
- Mazanderani: “روآندا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Rwanda”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rwanda Kiōng-hô-kok”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rwanda”
- Minangkabau: “Rwanda”
- Mingrelian: “რუანდა”
- Moksha: “Руанда”
- Mon: “ရဝါန်ဒါ”
- Mongolian: “Руанда”
- Moroccan Arabic: “رواندا”
- Nauru: “Rwanda”
- Navajo: “Wánda Dineʼé Bikéyah”
- Nepali: “रुवाण्डा”
- Nepali: “रुवान्डा”
- Newari: “रुवान्डा”
- Newari: “रुवान्दा”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Rwanda”
- North Ndebele: “Ruwanda”
- Northern Frisian: “Ruanda”
- Northern Luri: “روآندا”
- Northern Sami: “Rwanda dásseváldi”
- Northern Sami: “Rwanda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Rwanda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rwanda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rwanda”
- Norwegian: “Rwanda”
- Novial: “Rwanda”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “RW”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “RWA”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Rwanda”
- Obolo: “Ruwanda”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Rwanda”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rwanda”
- Oriya: “ରଵାଣ୍ଡା”
- Oriya: “ରାୱାଣ୍ଡା”
- Oriya: “ରୁଆଣ୍ଡା”
- Oromo: “Ruwaandaa”
- Ossetian: “Руандæ”
- Pali: “रवाण्डा”
- Pampanga: “Ruanda”
- Pampanga: “Rwanda”
- Panjabi: “ਰਵਾਂਡਾ”
- Papiamento: “Ruanda”
- Papiamento: “Rwanda”
- Pedi: “Rwanda”
- Persian: “رواندا”
- Persian: “روواندا”
- Piemontese: “Ruanda”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “R’wanda”
- Polish: “Rwanda”
- Portuguese: “Ruanda”
- Pushto: “rw”
- Pushto: “روندا”
- Pushto: “رونډا”
- Quechua: “Ruanda”
- Quechua: “Ruwantha”
- Quechua: “Rwanda”
- Romanian: “Ruanda”
- Romanian: “Rwanda”
- Romansh: “Ruanda”
- Rundi: “Rwanda”
- Rundi: “Urwanda”
- Russia Buriat: “Руанда”
- Russian: “Республика Руанда”
- Russian: “Руанда”
- Rusyn: “Рванда”
- Sakizaya: “Rwanda”
- Samoan: “Rwanda”
- Samogitian: “Ruanda”
- Sango: “Ruandäa”
- Sanskrit: “रवाण्डा”
- Santali: “ᱨᱩᱣᱟᱱᱰᱟ”
- Sardinian: “Ruanda”
- Saterfriesisch: “Ruanda”
- Scots: “Republic o Rwanda”
- Scots: “Rwanda”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rubhanda”
- Serbian: “Ruanda”
- Serbian: “Руанда”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ruanda”
- Shan: “မိူင်းရဝၢၼ်းတႃႇ”
- Shona: “Rwanda”
- Sicilian: “Ruanna”
- Silesian: “Rwanda”
- Sindhi: “جمھوريہ روانڊا”
- Sindhi: “روانڊا”
- Sinhala: “රුවන්ඩා ජනරජය”
- Sinhala: “රුවන්ඩාව”
- Skolt Sami: “Ruanda tääʹssväʹldd”
- Skolt Sami: “Ruanda”
- Slovak: “Rwanda”
- Slovak: “Rwandská republika”
- Slovenian: “Ruanda”
- Somali: “Ruwanda”
- South Azerbaijani: “رواندا”
- Southern Sotho: “Rwanda”
- Spanish: “República Ruandesa”
- Spanish: “Ruanda”
- Spanish: “Rwanda”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵔⵡⴰⵏⴷⴰ”
- Sundanese: “Rwanda”
- Swahili: “Jamhuri ya Rwanda”
- Swahili: “rw”
- Swahili: “Rwanda”
- Swati: “IRuwanda”
- Swedish: “De tusen kullarnas land”
- Swedish: “Republiken Rwanda”
- Swedish: “rw”
- Swedish: “Rwanda”
- Swiss German: “Ruanda”
- Tagalog: “Ruwanda”
- Tagalog: “Rwanda”
- Tajik: “Руанда”
- Talysh: “Ruanda”
- Talysh: “Rvanda”
- Tamil: “உருவாண்டா”
- Tamil: “ருவாண்டா”
- Taroko: “Rwanda”
- Tatar: “Руанда”
- Telugu: “రువాండా”
- Thai: “ประเทศรวันดา”
- Thai: “รวันดา”
- Tibetan: “རུ་ཝན་ཌ།”
- Tigrinya: “ሩዋንዳ”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Luanitā”
- Tsonga: “Rwanda”
- Tswana: “Rwanda”
- Tumbuka: “Rwanda”
- Tunisian Arabic: “رواندا”
- Turkish: “Ruanda”
- Turkmen: “Ruanda”
- Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Ruwanda”
- Tyap: “Ruwanda”
- Udmurt: “Руанда”
- Uighur: “رۋاندا”
- Uighur: “رىۋاندا”
- Ukrainian: “Республіка Руанда”
- Ukrainian: “Руанда”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ruanda”
- Upper Sorbian: “Rwanda”
- Urdu: “روانڈا”
- Uzbek: “Ruanda”
- Venetian: “Ruanda”
- Veps: “Ruand”
- Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Rwanda”
- Vietnamese: “Ru-an-đa (Rwanda)”
- Vietnamese: “Ru-an-đa”
- Vietnamese: “Rwanda”
- Vlaams: “Rwanda”
- Vlax Romani: “Rwanda”
- Volapük: “Ruandän”
- Võro: “Rwanda”
- Walloon: “Rwanda”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rwanda”
- Welsh: “Rwanda”
- Western Armenian: “Ռուանտա”
- Western Frisian: “Rûanda”
- Western Frisian: “Rwanda”
- Western Mari: “Руанда”
- Western Panjabi: “روانڈا”
- Wolof: “Ruwànda”
- Wolof: “Ruwandaa”
- Wu Chinese: “卢旺达”
- Xhosa: “Rwanda”
- Yakut: “Руанда”
- Yiddish: “רוואַנדע”
- Yoruba: “Rùwándà”
- Yoruba: “Rwanda”
- Yue Chinese: “盧安達”
- Yue Chinese: “盧旺達”
- Zeeuws: “Rwanda”
- Zhuang: “Rwanda”
- Zulu: “i-Rwanda”
- Zulu: “IRuwanda”
- “ma Luwanta”
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