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Rwanda

Republic of Rwanda
Africa · Eastern Africa

0Population

26.34Kkm² of land

$820GDP / person

KigaliCapital

ISO codes: RW · RWA
Density: 479 /km²
Languages: English, French, Kinyarwanda
Currency: Rwandan franc (RWF)
Dial code: +250
Internet domain: .rw
Time zones: 1
Coastline: Landlocked
Map centre: 1.8970° S, 30.1040° E
Demonym: Rwandan
UN region: Eastern Africa
Economy: Least developed region
Income group: Low income
Total GDP: $10.35B
Sovereignty: Independent · UN member
Borders: 4

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By the numbers

How Rwanda stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.

Population

75th

of 242 · 0.16% of world population

Land area

148th

of 242 · 0.02% of world land

GDP per person

217th

richest of 242 by output per person

Population density

23rd

most crowded of 242

Ten facts about Rwanda

The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.

1

Banned single-use plastic bags in 2008, and has the highest proportion of women in parliament of any country.

2

Population is about 12,626,950 people, the 75th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.16 per cent of everyone alive.

3

Covers 26,338 km², making it the 148th largest country here - about 10.2 times the size of Luxembourg.

4

Population density is about 479 people per km².

5

The capital is Kigali, at 1.95° S, 30.06° E, with a metropolitan population of about 860,000.

6

Shares land borders with 4 countries: Burundi, Dem. Rep. Congo, Tanzania and Uganda.

7

Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.

8

Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Kigali.

9

The currency is the Rwandan franc (RWF, symbol Fr).

10

Has 3 official languages: English, French and Kinyarwanda.

Local time

Live, from PHP's IANA database.

Africa/Kigali

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UTC+02:00

Cities

The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.

1 ★ Kigali Kigali City 1.9516° S, 30.0586° E 860K

Land neighbours

4 countries share a border with Rwanda.