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   Note: This section last updated 2nd June 2021

In French:

   1 234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and a space the thousands separator)

In English:

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

In Kinjarwanda:

   1.234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and . the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 2nd June 2021

In English and French:

   dd/mm/yyyy

   14:32   

In Kinyarwanda:

   yyyy-mm-dd

   14:32   

The official languages are French , English and Kinyarwanda (spoken by 98.3% of the population). There are a small number of Hima-speakers.

   Note: This section last updated 24th November 2022

Any address written in a non-native language will be written in French or, increasingly, English. Deliveries are made only to post office boxes (Boîte Postale, or BP).

Though postal deliveries are only to mailing addresses, street addresses will be found for the use of couriers, visitors etc. As not all streets are named, these may often be descriptive and unstructured. Examples:

The postal service requests that addresses include the mobile telephone number of the recipient so that the delivery point can be clarified by SMS.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

This is written as Boîte Postale, or BP.

Rwanda has no postal code system.

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Rwanda - Postal code format

Rwanda - Postal code specifics

Rwanda - Postal code regular expression

Rwanda - Postal code level of coverage

Rwanda - Postal code map

   Note: This section last updated 12th August 2014

Refer to Exonyms in Rwanda for full lists of place names in Rwanda in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

Rwanda has 4 provinces (provinces in French and prefigintara in Kinyarwanda) and a town council (shown in the list below with an asterisk):

    Est 
    Kigale-Ville  *
    Nord 
    Ouest 
    Sud 

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Rwandan telephone numbers have no area code. All numbers (when called from abroad) have a length of 8 or 9 digits. The leading 0 needs to be dialled after the country code. Mobile numbers begin with 72, 75 or 78.

   Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm