Butare
Butare, also known as Huye, is the third city of Rwanda, located in the south. Butare is the capital of Butare district. It is said to have about 50,000 inhabitants.Photo: Pierre Galinier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Pierre Galinier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Stade Huye
Stadium
Photo: Claude Nizeyimana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Huye Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Butare, Rwanda.
Ethnographic Museum
Museum
Photo: Amakuru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ethnographic Museum, formerly the National Museum of Rwanda, is a national museum in Rwanda.
Butare
- Type: City with 89,600 residents
- Description: city in Rwanda
- Category: locality
- Location: Ngoma, Huye District, Southern Province, Rwanda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-2.6053° or 2° 36' 19" southLongitude
29.7402° or 29° 44' 25" eastPopulation
89,600Elevation
1,769 metres (5,804 feet)IATA airport code
BTQUnited Nations Location Code
RW BTQOpen Location Code
6G9F9PVR+V3OpenStreetMap ID
node 435637541OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
203112Wikidata ID
Q509739Butare Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Butare
- Arabic: هويي
- Armenian: Բուտարե
- Asturian: Butare
- Azerbaijani: Butare
- Basque: Butare
- Bengali: বুটাারে
- 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
- English: Astrida
- English: Huye
- 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: Butare
- Norwegian Bokmål: Butare
- Persian: بوتیر
- Polish: Butare
- Portuguese: Butare
- Russian: Бутаре
- Serbian: Бутаре
- Silesian: Butare
- Sinhala: බුතාරේ නගරය
- 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
- බුටාරේ
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Butare. Photo: Pierre Galinier, CC BY-SA 3.0.