Rwanda
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- RW
- ISO alpha-3
- RWA
- ISO numeric
- 646
- FIPS 10-4
- RW
- GeoNames ID
- 49518
Key facts
- Capital
- Kigali
- Area
- 26,338 km²
- Population
- 12,301,939
- Currency
- Franc (RWF)
- Calling code
- +250
- Top-level domain
- .rw
- Official languages
- rw,en-RW,fr-RW,sw
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -2
- Longitude
- 30
- Min latitude
- -2.826854756999893
- Min longitude
- 28.857235555000074
- Max latitude
- -1.0586939489998741
- Max longitude
- 30.88780928500006
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/RW?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 26338,
"capital": "Kigali",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "RWF",
"iso3_code": "RWA",
"iso_code": "RW",
"name": "Rwanda",
"population": 12301939
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/RW/regions/v1/cities?country=RW/v1/postal-codes?country=RW/v1/timezones?country=RW
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- رواندا
- Chinese
- 卢旺达
- English
- Rwanda
- French
- Rwanda
- German
- Ruanda
- Hindi
- रवांडा
- Italian
- Ruanda
- Japanese
- ルワンダ
- Korean
- 르완다
- Portuguese
- Ruanda
- Russian
- Руанда
- Spanish
- Ruanda
- Total language variants
- 138
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Kigali | UTC+02:00 | UTC+02:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Eastern Province
- Southern Province
- Western Province
- Northern Province
- Kigali Province
5 of 5 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Kigali | 1,132,686 |
| Gisenyi | 172,357 |
| Musanze | 153,368 |
| Nyagatare | 100,000 |
| Gitarama | 87,613 |
| Muhanga | 82,797 |
| Butare | 62,823 |
| Kibuye | 48,024 |
| Rwamagana | 47,203 |
| Kibungo | 46,240 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 10,260
- First-level regions
- 5
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 138
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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