Rwanda: 5 provinces, states and territories
Every administrative level, from the 5 first-level units down to ADM5, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.
Rwanda by province, state and territory
5 first-level units and 30 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.
Every administrative level of Rwanda
Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.
- ADM1
- 5 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
- ADM2
- 30 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
- ADM3
- 416 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
- ADM4
- 2,148 fourth-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
- ADM5
- 14,815 fifth-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
All 5 first-level units
Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.
Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
| Unit | Code | People (GHSL) | People (WorldPop) | Area km² | Per km² | Share | Coast ≤ 10 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Kigali | RW-01 | 1,919,831 | 2,001,932 | 732 | 2,623 | 12.7% | 0 |
| Eastern Province | RW-02 | 4,410,858 | 3,979,066 | 9,508 | 464 | 29.2% | 0 |
| Northern Province | RW-03 | 1,924,045 | 2,166,346 | 3,287 | 585 | 12.7% | 0 |
| Southern Province | RW-05 | 3,491,712 | 3,278,006 | 5,984 | 584 | 23.1% | 0 |
| Western Province | RW-04 | 3,358,712 | 3,407,282 | 5,906 | 569 | 22.2% | 0 |
Subnational risk products
Sources, credits and licences
- ADM1 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RWA ADM1, source: The Rwanda Geo Portal, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2020
- ADM2 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RWA ADM2, source: Open Data Rwanda, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2012
- ADM3 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RWA ADM3, source: Open Data Rwanda, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2012
- ADM4 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RWA ADM4, source: Open Data Rwanda, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2012
- ADM5 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RWA ADM5, source: The World Bank, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2012
- Basemap
- OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
- Terrain
- Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
- People
- GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
- Amazwe
- Natural Earth (public domain).
- Elevation
- GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
- Position
- Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
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