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Rwanda

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For supplementary information, see links to post office home pages here External, to postal code pages here External and to other personal name and addressing issues pages here External.

Table of Contents

Rwanda - Country information

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Local short name form

Official name

Area

Population

13 246 394 (2022) [1]

Capital

Currency

International telephone access code

250

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

RWA

Internet country code

RW

GRC Country Code

RWA

Rwanda - Number format

   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)

Rwanda - Date and time formats

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   Note: This section last updated 2nd June 2021

In English and French:

   dd/mm/yyyy
   14:32   

In Kinyarwanda:

   yyyy-mm-dd
   14:32   

Rwanda - Languages

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

Rwanda - Example address format

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   Note: This section last updated 24th November 2022

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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:

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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 External

Rwanda - Post office box

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This is written as Boîte Postale, or BP.

Rwanda - Postal codes

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Rwanda has no postal code system.

Rwanda - Postal code format graphic

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Rwanda - Postal code format

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Rwanda - Postal code specifics

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Rwanda - Postal code regular expression

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Rwanda - Postal code level of coverage

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Rwanda - Postal code map

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Place names in Rwanda

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

Rwanda - Administrative districts

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

    Est External
    Kigale-Ville External *
    Nord External
    Ouest External
    Sud External

Administrative districts graphic

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Telephone numbers in Rwanda

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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.

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References

  1. ^ citypopulation.de/en/rwanda/admin/ External 20230317

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