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Rwanda (nation) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 02 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -2.0000 decimal degrees |
Long: 030 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 30.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Landlocked, but adjacent to Lac Kivu, mostly at altitude of over 5000 feet; Tutsi tribe invaded in 16th century, replacing Hutu rule and forming monarchy; formerly part of German East Africa, then of Belgian Ruanda-Urundi (Belgian East Africa); official languages are French and Rwanda, though Kiswahili is widely used in commerce. |
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Rwanda (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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Rwanda (Quechuan)
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Rwanda (Rwanda-P,U,N)
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Rwanda (Maltese)
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Rwanda (Vietnamese)
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Rwanda (Indonesian)
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Rwanda (Javanese)
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Rwanda (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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Rwanda (Lingala)
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Rwanda (Danish)
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Rwanda (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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Rwanda (Swedish)
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Rwanda (Polish)
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Rwanda (Romanian)
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Rwanda (Slovak)
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Rwanda (Spanish-P,U,N)
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Rwanda (Catalan)
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Rwanda (Akan)
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Rwanda (Welsh)
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Rwanda (Kongo (Congo))
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Rwanda (Breton)
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Rwanda (Cornish)
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Rwanda (Czech)
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Rwanda (Dutch)
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Rwanda (Afrikaans)
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Rwanda (French-P,U,N)
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Rwanda (Estonian)
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Rwanda (Greenlandic)
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Rwanda (Occitan)
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Rwanda (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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Rwanda (Kikuyu)
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Rwanda (Luba-Katanga)
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Rwanda (Malay (macrolanguage))
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Rwanda (Norwegian)
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Rwanda (Pampanga)
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Rwanda (Northern Sami)
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Rwanda (Shona)
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Rwanda (Swahili (generic))
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Republic of Rwanda (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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Repubulika y'u Rwanda (C,V,O,Rwanda,U,N)
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République du Rwanda (C,V,O,French,U,N)
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République rwandaise (C,V,French,U,N)
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República de Rwanda (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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Rwandese Republic (C,O)
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Ruanda (C,O,Croatian)
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............ | German spelling was vernacular in 19th cen. |
Ruanda (Bosnian)
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Ruanda (Latin)
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Ruanda (Latvian)
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Ruanda (Magyar (Hungarian))
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Ruanda (Finnish)
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Ruanda (Portuguese)
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Ruanda (Romanian)
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Ruanda (Slovene)
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Ruanda (Spanish)
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Ruanda (Catalan)
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Ruanda (Basque)
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Ruanda (Aragonese)
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Ruanda (Asturian)
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Ruanda (Irish Gaelic)
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Ruanda (German)
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Ruanda (Low German)
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Ruanda (Albanian)
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Ruanda (Galician)
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Ruanda (Faroese)
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Ruanda (Italian)
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Ruanda (Lithuanian)
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Ruanda (Estonian)
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Ruanda (Turkish)
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Ruanda (Romansh)
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Ruanda (Ido)
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Ruanda (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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Руанда (C,O,Tajik)
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Руанда (Serbian)
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Руанда (Macedonian)
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Руанда (Bulgarian)
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Руанда (Russian-P,U)
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Руанда (Ukrainian)
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Руанда (Belarusian)
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Руандийская Республика (C,O,Russian,U)
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卢旺达 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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卢旺达共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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رواهدا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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جُهور ةً رواهدا (C,O,Arabic,U)
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RWA (C,O,ISO3L)
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RW (C,O,ISO2L)
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ISO646 (C,O,ISO3N)
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Rwandan (C,O,English,U,A)
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Rwandese (C,O,English,U,N)
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רואנדה (C,U,Hebrew )
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i-Rwanda (C,U,Zulu)
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Luanitā (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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Orílẹ́ède Ruwanda (C,U,Yoruba)
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Republika y’u Rwanda (C,U,Rwanda)
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République Rwandaise (C,U)
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Résidence du Ruanda (C,U)
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Roanda (C,U,Malagasy)
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Rouanda (C,U,Arpitan)
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Rúanda (C,U,Icelandic)
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Ru-an-đa (C,U,Vietnamese)
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Ruandäa (C,U,Sangho)
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Ruandän (C,U,Volapük)
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Ruanda - Rwanda (C,U,Galician)
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Ru-an-đa (Rwanda) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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Ruando (C,U,Esperanto)
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Ruwanda (C,U,Somali)
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Ruwanda (Tagalog)
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Ruwanda (Bambara)
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Ruwanda (Hausa)
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Ruwanda (North Ndebele)
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Ruwanndaa (C,U,Fulah)
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Rvanda (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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Rwanda nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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u Rwanda (C,U,Rundi)
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ルワンダ (C,U,Japanese)
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རུ་ཝན་ཌ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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رواندا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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رواندا (Arabic)
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ประเทศรวันดา (C,U,Thai)
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रवांडा (C,U,Marathi)
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रवांडा (Hindi)
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ລາວັນດາ (C,U,Lao)
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르완다 (C,U,Korean)
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Ρουάντα (C,U,Greek)
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Ռուանդա (C,U,Armenian)
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ルワンダ共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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روانڈا (C,U,Urdu)
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رۋاندا (C,U,Uyghur)
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ሩዋንዳ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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ሩዋንዳ (Amharic)
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რუანდა (C,U,Georgian)
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रवाण्डा (C,U,Hindi)
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रवाण्डा (Nepali)
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रूआण्डा (C,U,Hindi)
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รวันดา (C,U,Thai)
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រវ៉ាន់ដា (C,U,Khmer)
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روندا (C,U,Pashto)
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روواندا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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റുവാണ്ട (C,U,Malayalam)
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ରାୱାଣ୍ଡା (C,U,Odia)
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ర్వాండా (C,U,Telugu)
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રવાંડા (C,U,Gujarati)
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ڕواندا (C,U,Kurdish)
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ருவான்டா (C,U,Tamil)
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ರುವಾಂಡಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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রুয়ান্ডা (C,U,Bengali)
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ရဝန်ဒါ (C,U,Burmese)
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nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence 1962 |
primary political unit (C) |
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independent sovereign nation (C) |
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republic (C) |
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former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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controlled region (H) |
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German, late 19th-early 20th cen.; Belgian, 1919 |
independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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capital is .... |
Kigali .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Rwanda, Kigali City) [1092479] |
member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1962 |
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