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Rwanda

Rwanda is a relatively stable country, and easily accessible from and . It is known as the land of a thousand hills, but is also a country rich in flora and fauna and stunning natural beauty in its scenic rolling and breathtaking green savannah.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Kigali and Butare.

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is the capital of Rwanda. The centre of political and commercial life, dominates Rwanda and few visit the country without passing through.

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, also known as Huye, is the third largest city of Rwanda, located in the south. is the capital of district. It is said to have about 50,000 inhabitants.

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, historically rendered as Kisenyi, is the second largest city in Rwanda, located in the Rubavu district in Rwanda's . is contiguous with as it was formerly also part of now , the city across the border in the .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Muhanga and Kibuye.

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is a city in the Southern Province, Rwanda, though it is physically closer to the centre of the country, about 45 km southwest of Kigali at an elevation of about 1,800 m.

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is a city in western Rwanda on the shore of Lake Kivu — the surrounding area offers some stunning views of the lake. The new name is Karongi, most people still call it though.

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is in Rwanda, and since 2023 a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is probably the best preserved rainforest in the mountains throughout Central Africa.

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is an extraordinary park in Rwanda, full of impressive tropical rainforest and volcanic scenery, trekking, and is perhaps the best place in the world to see the rare mountain gorillas.

, also called Musanze, is a city in Northern Province of Rwanda's Musanze district and the second largest city in Rwanda, with a population of about 153,000.

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is a city and capital of the Rusizi District in , Rwanda. The city lies at the southern end of , and is contiguous with , , but separated from it by the Ruzizi River.

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is the capital of the District and Rwanda's Eastern Province. In 2015, it was home to about 47,000 people.

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is a city of 46,000 people in eastern Rwanda, 100 km from , along the main road to Tanzania.

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is in the northeast of Rwanda measuring over 1,200 square km. After being decimated by high levels of poaching following the return of refugees and farmers after the 1994 Genocide, the park has been revived and is now the only 'Big 5' reserve in the country.

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is a town and sector in the , southeastern Rwanda. literally means 'place of milk' from the two Kinyarwanda words nya- 'of' and amata 'milk'.

District is a district in , Rwanda. Its capital is the town of .

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is a district in Northern Province of Rwanda. is one of five districts of Northern Province used to be called Byumba Province. covers 829 lm2 is located in the east of the Northern Province, the northern side of borders…

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is the largest town in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda, located in the south. The town is famous in central Africa as the location where groups of young men and women had visions of the virgin Mary in the 1980s.

Rwanda

Latitude of center
-2° or 2° south
Longitude of center
29.88° or 29° 52′ 48″ east
Population
11,400,000
Area
26,338 km² (10,169 miles²)
Elevation
1,354 metres (4,442 feet)
Capital
Currency
Franc (RWF)
Phone code
.rw
Internet domain
250
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311738
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
49518
Wiki­data ID
Q1037
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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: “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: “Rwanda”
  • 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”
  • 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: “रुआण्डा”
  • 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: “ರುವಾಂಡ”
  • Kannada: “ರುವಾಂಡಾ”
  • Kannada: “ರ್ವಾಂಡ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ruanda”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Руанда”
  • 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”
  • Kinyarwanda: “U Rwanda”
  • Kirghiz: “Руанда”
  • 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: “रवांडा”
  • 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”
  • Mongolian: “Руанда”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “رواندا”
  • Nauru: “Rwanda”
  • Navajo: “Wánda Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “रवाण्डा”
  • 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”
  • 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: “روآندا”
  • 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: “u 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: “rw”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ruanda”
  • Tsonga: “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 hoà Rwanda”
  • 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: “רוואנדע”
  • Yiddish: “רוואַנדע”
  • Yoruba: “Ruwanda”
  • 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”
  • “Ruanda”
  • “RW”
  • “RWA”
  • “Rwanda”
  • “रवांडा”

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