Rwanda

Rwanda

Rwanda ranks 147th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cape Verde, Laos, and Benin. Memorable people born in present day Rwanda include Juvénal Habyarimana, Paul Kagame, and Félicien Kabuga. Memorable people who died in Rwanda include Dian Fossey, Juvénal Habyarimana, and Grégoire Kayibanda. Rwanda has been the birth place of many politicians and businesspeople and the death place of many politicians and biologists.

Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is highly elevated, giving it the soubriquet "land of a thousand hills", with its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the southeast, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical, with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year. It is the most densely populated mainland African country; among countries larger than 10,000 km2, it is the fifth most densely populated country in the world. Its capital and largest city is Kigali. Read more on Wikipedia