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Patron Saint: Assomption de la Vierge Marie

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Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Capital: Kigali

Area: 24,668 km²

Population: 11,901,484

Former Name: Ruanda-Urundi, German East Africa

Neighbouring Countries: ← Congo-Kinshasa , ↑ Uganda , → Tanzania , ↓ Burundi

Religions: Protestant 49.5% (includes Adventist 11.8% and other Protestant 37.7%), Roman Catholic 43.7%, Muslim 2%, other 0.9% (includes Jehovah's Witness), none 2.5%, unspecified 1.3%

Languages: Kinyarwanda (official, universal Bantu vernacular) 93.2%, French (official) <.1, English (official) <.1, Swahili/Kiswahili (official, used in commercial centers) <.1, more than one language, others 6.3%, unspecified 0.3%

Ethnic Groups: Hutu, Tutsi, Twa (Pygmy)

Motto: Ubumwe, Umurimo, Gukunda Igihugu (Kinyarwanda) (Unity, Work, Patriotism)

Area: 26,338 km²

Catholic Population: 6,320,000 Catholics (46.8% of 13,499,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 229 parishes, 160 mission stations (without resident priest), 8 other centres

Clergy: 17 bishops (9 diocesan, 8 titular), 1,038 priests (826 diocesan, 212 religious)

Non-Clergy: 3,075 religious (369 brothers, 2,706 sisters), 126 members of secular institutes (sisters), 604 major seminarians, 37 missionaries, 12,588 catechists