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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: 6,066,000 Catholics (46.8% of 12,956,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 215 parishes, 203 mission stations (without resident priest), 8 other centres

Clergy: 13 bishops (8 diocesan, 5 titular), 962 priests (754 diocesan, 208 religious)

Non-Clergy: 2,789 religious (314 brothers, 2,475 sisters), 166 members of secular institutes (sisters), 662 major seminarians, 27 missionaries, 10,334 catechists