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 Rwanda 
 Main prefix
 9X 
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 9XA-9XZ 
 Time zone
 +2 h 
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 Africa 
 ITU zone
 52 
 CQ zone
 36 
 
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 Flag description 
Three horizontal bands of sky blue (top, double width), yellow, and green, with a golden sun with 24 rays near the fly end of the blue band.
 
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 Rwanda 
 Capital: 
Kigali
 Administrative
 divisions: 
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
 Government
 type: 
republic, presidential, multiparty system
 National
 holiday: 
Independence Day, 1 July (1962)
 
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