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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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