Rwanda
Rwanda is a relatively stable East African country, and easily accessible from Kenya and Uganda. It is relatively easy, safe and simple to travel around.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Kigali
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Kigali is the capital of Rwanda. The centre of political and commercial life, Kigali dominates Rwanda and few visit the country without passing through.
Gisenyi
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Gisenyi, historically rendered as Kisenyi, is the second largest city in Rwanda, located in the Rubavu district in Rwanda's Western Province.
Destinations
Muhanga
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"'Muhanga"' is a city in the Southern Province of Rwanda, in the Muhanga District.
Kibuye
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Kibuye is a city in western Rwanda on the shore of Lake Kivu — the surrounding area offers some stunning views of the lake.
Ruhengeri
Musanze is a city in northern Rwanda's Musanze district.Volcanoes National Park
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Volcanoes National Park 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.
Nyungwe National Park
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Nyungwe National Park is in Rwanda, and since 2023 a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Kibungo
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Kibungo is a city of 46,000 people in eastern Rwanda, 100 km from Kigali, along the main road to Tanzania.
Akagera National Park
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Akagera National Park is in the Northeast of Rwanda measuring over 1,200 square km.
Nyamata
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Nyamata is a town in the Bugesera District, southeastern Rwanda.
Ngororero
Ngororero District is a district in Western Province, Rwanda. Its capital is the town of Ngororero.Rwanda
- Type: Country with 11,400,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in Africa
- Languages: Kinyarwanda, English, French and Swahili
- Neighbors: Burundi, DR Congo, Tanzania and Uganda
- Categories: republic, sovereign state, landlocked country and locality
- Location: East Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
-2° or 2° southLongitude of centre
29.88° or 29° 52' 48" eastPopulation
11,400,000Area
26,338 km² (10,169 miles²)Elevation
1,354 metres (4,442 feet)Capital
KigaliCurrency
Franc (RWF)Phone code
.rwInternet domain
250OpenStreetMap ID
node 424311738OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
49518Wikidata ID
Q1037Rwanda Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Rwanda
- Abkhazian: Ареспублика Руанда
- Abkhazian: Руанда
- Achinese: Rwanda
- Afar: Ruanda
- Afrikaans: Rwanda
- Akan: Rwanda
- Albanian: Ruanda
- Albanian: Ruandë
- Amharic: Rwanda
- Amharic: ሩዋንዳ
- Amis: Rwanda
- Angika: रवांडा
- Arabic: Rwanda
- Arabic: رواندا
- Aragonese: Ruanda
- Armenian: Ռուանդա
- Arpitan: Rouanda
- Assamese: ৰোৱাণ্ডা
- Asturian: Ruanda
- Avaric: Rwanda
- Azerbaijani: Ruanda
- Balinese: Rwanda
- Bambara: Ruwanda
- Bambara: Rwanda
- Banjar: Rwanda
- Bashkir: Руанда
- Basque: Ruanda
- Bavarian: Ruanda
- Belarusian: Руанда
- Bengali: রুয়ান্ডা
- Bhojpuri: रवांडा
- Bhojpuri: रवांडा गणराज्य
- Bhojpuri: रवांडा रिपब्लिक
- Bishnupriya: রুয়ান্ডা
- Bislama: Rwanda
- Bosnian: Ruanda
- Breton: Rwanda
- Bulgarian: Руанда
- Burmese: ရဝန်ဒါ
- Burmese: ရဝမ်ဒါနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: RW
- Catalan: RWA
- Catalan: Ruanda
- Catalan: Rwanda
- Cebuano: Rwanda
- Central Bikol: Ruanda
- 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: Ruanda
- Crimean Tatar: Ruanda
- Croatian: Ruanda
- Czech: Rwanda
- Dagbani: Rwanda
- Danish: Rwanda
- Dhivehi: ރުވާންޑާ
- Dimli (individual language): Rwanda
- Dinka: Ruanda
- Dotyali: रुवान्डा
- Dutch: RW
- Dutch: RWA
- Dutch: Rwanda
- Dzongkha: རུ་ཝན་ཌ
- Eastern Mari: Руанда
- Eastern Mari: Руанде
- Egyptian Arabic: رواندا
- English: Republic of Rwanda
- English: rw
- Esperanto: RW
- Esperanto: Respubliko Ruando
- Esperanto: Ruando
- Estonian: Ruanda
- Estonian: Rwanda
- Estonian: Rwanda Vabariik
- Ewe: Rwanda
- Ewe: Rwanda nutome
- Extremaduran: Ruanda
- Faroese: Ruanda
- Fiji Hindi: Rwanda
- Finnish: Ruanda
- Finnish: Ruandan tasavalta
- French: RW
- French: Rwanda
- French: République Rwandaise
- French: République du Rwanda
- French: la République du Rwanda
- Friulian: Ruande
- Fulah: Ruwannda
- Fulah: Ruwanndaa
- Gagauz: Ruanda
- Galician: Ruanda - Rwanda
- Galician: Ruanda
- Ganda: Rwanda
- Georgian: რუანდა
- German: Ruanda
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Rwanda
- Greek: Ρουάντα
- Guarani: Rruánda
- Guianese Creole French: Rwanda
- Gujarati: રવાંડા
- Gujarati: રવાન્ડા
- Haitian: Rwanda
- Hakka Chinese: Rwanda
- Hausa: Ruwanda
- Hausa: Rwanda
- Hebrew: רואנדה
- Hindi: रवांडा
- Hindi: रवाण्डा
- Hindi: रूआण्डा
- Hungarian: Ruanda
- Hungarian: Ruandai Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Rúanda
- Ido: Ruanda
- Igbo: Rwanda
- Iloko: Rwanda
- Inari Sami: Ruanda
- Inari Sami: Ruanda täsiväldi
- 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: Руандин Орн
- Kalmyk: Руһандин Орн
- Kannada: ರುವಾಂಡಾ
- Kannada: ರ್ವಾಂಡ
- Kara-Kalpak: Ruanda
- Kashmiri: روٗوانڈا
- Kazakh: Руанда
- Khmer: រវ៉ាន់ដា
- Kikuyu: Rwanda
- Kinyarwanda: Republika y’u Rwanda
- Kinyarwanda: Repubulika y'u Rwanda
- Kinyarwanda: Rwanda
- Kinyarwanda: U Rwanda
- Kirghiz: Руанда
- Komi-Permyak: Руанда
- Kongo: Rwanda
- Korean: 르완다
- Kotava: Rwanda
- Kurdish: Rwanda
- Ladin: Ruanda
- Ladino: Ruanda
- Lao: 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: Repubblika tar-Rwanda
- Maltese: Rwanda
- Maltese: ir-Rwanda
- Manipuri: ꯔꯋꯥꯟꯗꯥ
- Manx: Rooandey
- Maori: Rāwana
- Marathi: रवांडा
- Marathi: ऱ्वांडा
- Mazanderani: روآندا
- Min Dong Chinese: Rwanda
- Min Nan Chinese: Rwanda
- Min Nan Chinese: Rwanda Kiōng-hô-kok
- Minangkabau: Rwanda
- Mingrelian: რუანდა
- Moksha: Руанда
- Mongolian: Руанда
- Mongolian: ꯔꯋꯥꯟꯗꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: رواندا
- Nauru: Rwanda
- Navajo: Wánda Dineʼé Bikéyah
- Nepali: रवाण्डा
- Nepali: रुवाण्डा
- Nepali: रुवान्डा
- Newari: रुवान्डा
- North Ndebele: Ruwanda
- Northern Frisian: Ruanda
- Northern Luri: روآندا
- Northern Sami: Rwanda
- Northern Sami: Rwanda dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Rwanda
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Rwanda
- Norwegian Bokmål: Rwanda
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Rwanda
- Novial: Rwanda
- 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: راونډا
- Pushto: روندا
- Quechua: Ruanda
- Quechua: Ruwantha
- Quechua: Rwanda
- Romanian: Ruanda
- Romanian: Rwanda
- Romansh: Ruanda
- Rundi: Rwanda
- Rundi: Urwanda
- Rundi: u Rwanda
- 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: 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
- Skolt Sami: Ruanda tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Rwanda
- Slovak: Rwandská republika
- Slovenian: Ruanda
- Somali: Ruwanda
- South Azerbaijani: رواندا
- Southern Sotho: Rwanda
- Spanish: República Ruandesa
- Spanish: Ruanda
- Spanish: Rwanda
- Spanish: rw
- Sundanese: Rwanda
- Swahili: Rwanda
- Swahili: rw
- Swati: IRuwanda
- Swedish: De tusen kullarnas land
- Swedish: Republiken Rwanda
- Swedish: Rwanda
- Swedish: rw
- Swiss German: Ruanda
- Tagalog: Ruwanda
- Tagalog: Rwanda
- Tajik: Руанда
- 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: رىۋاندا
- Uighur: رۋاندا
- Ukrainian: Республіка Руанда
- Ukrainian: Руанда
- Upper Sorbian: Ruanda
- Upper Sorbian: Rwanda
- Urdu: روانڈا
- Uzbek: Ruanda
- Venetian: Ruanda
- Veps: Ruand
- Vietnamese: Ru-an-đa (Rwanda)
- Vietnamese: Ru-an-đa
- Vietnamese: Rwanda
- Volapük: Ruandän
- Võro: Rwanda
- Walloon: Rwanda
- Waray (Philippines): Rwanda
- Welsh: Rwanda
- Western Frisian: Rwanda
- Western Frisian: Rûanda
- Western Mari: Руанда
- Western Panjabi: روانڈا
- Wolof: Ruwandaa
- Wolof: Ruwànda
- Wu Chinese: 卢旺达
- Yakut: Руанда
- Yiddish: רוואַנדע
- Yiddish: רוואנדע
- Yoruba: Ruwanda
- Yoruba: Rùwándà
- Yue Chinese: 盧安達
- Yue Chinese: 盧旺達
- Zeeuws: Rwanda
- Zhuang: Rwanda
- Zulu: IRuwanda
- Zulu: i-Rwanda
- Rwandese Republic
- Résidence du Ruanda
- ma Luwanta
- रुआण्डा
- ರುವಾಂಡ
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