Rwanda map quiz
Explore cities, landmarks and waters of Rwanda!
Quizzes in this pack
Rwanda: cities, landmarks, waters.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
| Waters | 6 questions |
Sample questions
- Capital city spread across several hills and valleys in the geographic centre of the country, transformed into one of Africa's cleanest and most modern cities
- Answer: Kigali
- University city in the south formerly known as Butare, home to the National Museum of Rwanda and the country's oldest institution of higher learning
- Answer: Huye
- Resort city on the northern shore of Lake Kivu near the Congo border, formerly known as Gisenyi, popular for its beaches and hot springs
- Answer: Rubavu
- Northern city at the foot of the Virunga volcanoes, formerly called Ruhengeri, the main gateway for mountain gorilla trekking
- Answer: Musanze
- Central city formerly known as Gitarama, a transport crossroads on the main highway between Kigali and the southwestern highlands
- Answer: Muhanga
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Volcanoes National Park
Virunga Mountains
Volcanoes National Park in the Virunga Mountains protects mountain gorillas on the bamboo-covered slopes of five volcanoes. The American scientist Dian Fossey studied the gorillas here from 1967 until her murder in 1985, and her work helped save them.
- Did you know?
- Each year gorilla babies born here are named in a ceremony called Kwita Izina
- Rings a bell?
- Her life was told in the film Gorillas in the Mist, from 1988, with Sigourney Weaver
Akagera National Park
Eastern Rwanda
Akagera National Park in eastern Rwanda is a land of savanna, lakes and swamps along the border with Tanzania. Lions, which had disappeared, were brought back in 2015 and rhinos in 2017, so it now has all of the big five animals again.
- Opened
- 1934
King's Palace Museum
Nyanza
The King's Palace Museum in Nyanza shows a rebuilt royal hut of the old kings of Rwanda, a huge beehive-shaped house of woven grass. Nearby stands the later palace of King Mutara III, and long-horned Inyambo cattle are kept here as they were for the royal court.
- Did you know?
- Singers chant to the Inyambo cattle as part of an old tradition
Rusumo Falls
Rwanda–Tanzania border
Rusumo Falls is a powerful waterfall on the Kagera River at the border crossing between Rwanda and Tanzania. A bridge crosses the river just by the falls, and the Kagera flows on into Lake Victoria as one of the farthest sources of the Nile.
- Did you know?
- German explorer Gustav Adolf von Götzen crossed into Rwanda here in 1894
Nyabarongo River
Central Rwanda
The Nyabarongo is the longest river in Rwanda, winding through green hills and valleys of papyrus. Its waters carry red soil from the hills, and it is one of the most distant sources of the Nile.
- Flows into
- The Akagera, and on to the Nile
- Known for
- Red water, papyrus, a source of the Nile
Lake Burera
Northern Rwanda
Lake Burera lies in the far north of Rwanda, below the Virunga volcanoes, with steep green hills and small islands. Terraced fields climb its slopes, and a short channel joins it to Lake Ruhondo below.
- Known for
- The Virunga volcanoes, terraces, islands
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