Map of Rwanda

Rwanda is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 2.0° S, 30.0° E. Rwanda is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 4 neighbours — Burundi, DR Congo, Tanzania and Uganda — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Rwanda is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Rwanda is surrounded by the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Rwanda covers about 26,338 km² (10,169 sq mi). That makes it the 145th-largest country in the world by area and the 46th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 8 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 14,104,969, the 77th-largest in the world and the 29th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Rwanda has an average population density of about 536 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 29th by population and 46th by area.

The seat of government is Kigali, and the official currency is the Rwandan franc (RWF, Fr), and the main official languages are English, French and Kinyarwanda. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Rwanda carries the ISO country codes RW and RWA, dials on the international calling code +250 and uses the .rw internet domain.

Rwanda shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are DR Congo (capital Kinshasa, about 112,832,000 people), Tanzania (capital Dodoma, about 68,153,004 people), Uganda (capital Kampala, about 45,905,417 people) and Burundi (capital Gitega, about 12,332,788 people).

By area, Rwanda is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 4 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 2.0° S, 30.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Rwanda within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Kigali. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Rwanda lies about 222 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Rwanda keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

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

The official languages are English, French and Kinyarwanda, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +250 and websites commonly use the .rw internet domain.

In short, Rwanda is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Kigali. Rwanda has a population of about 14,104,969 and covers around 26,338 km² (10,169 sq mi), ranking it 77th in the world by population and 145th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Rwanda.

The flag of Rwanda is composed of three horizontal bands of light blue, yellow and green. The light blue band is twice the height of the other two bands and bears a yellow sun with twenty-four rays on its fly side.

The flag of Rwanda is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.