Rwanda

The country calling code for Rwanda is +250. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Rwanda number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Rwanda is assigned RW as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and RWA as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Rwanda is .rw. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Rwanda is the Rwandan franc, with the ISO 4217 code RWF and the symbol Fr. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Rwanda are quoted in RWF. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Rwanda is +02:00, currently UTC+02:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Rwanda is Kigali. Rwanda sits in Africa, specifically the Eastern Africa subregion. Its approximate centre point is -2.00000000, 30.00000000. Traffic in Rwanda drives on the right. Languages recorded for Rwanda: Kinyarwanda, English, French.

Rwanda shares a land border with 4 countries: Burundi, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Tanzania, United Republic of and Uganda. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.