12 prefectures (in French - prefectures, singular - prefecture, in Kinyarwanda - plural - NA, singular - prefegitura): Butare, Byumba, Cyangugu, Gikongoro, Gisenyi, Gitarama, Kibungo, Kibuye, Kigali Rurale, Kigali-ville, Umutara, and Ruhengeri.
Population:
7,398,074 (July 2002 est.) estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS, this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
Languages:
Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centers
Geographic coordinates:
2° 00' S, 30° 00' E
Area total:
26,338 sq. km
Land area:
24,948 sq. km
Water area:
1,390 sq. km
Total land boundaries:
893 km
Borders with neighbor countries:
Burundi 290 km, Democratic Republic of the Congo 217 km, Tanzania 217 km, Uganda 169 km
Coastline:
0 km (landlocked)
Elevation extremes:
Rusizi River 950 m - Volcan Karisimbi 4,519 m
Internet country code:
.rw
Currency:
Rwandan franc (RWF)
Name - conventional long form:
Rwandese Republic
Name - conventional short form:
Rwanda
Name - local long form:
Republika y'u Rwanda
Name - local short form:
Rwanda
Former name:
Ruanda
Independence:
1 July 1962 (from Belgium-administered UN trusteeship)
Constitution:
on 5 May 1995, the Transitional National Assembly adopted as Fundamental Law the constitution of 18 June 1991, provisions of the 1993 Arusha peace accord, the July 1994 Declaration by the Rwanda Patriotic Front, and the November 1994 multiparty protocol of understanding