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Key facts
- Country
- Rwanda
- Capital
- Kibuye
- Districts
- List Karongi Ngororero Nyabihu Nyamasheke Rubavu Rusizi Rutsiro
- Governor
- Jean Bosco Ntibitura
- Province
- 5,882 km (2,271 sq mi)
- Density
- 492.4/km (1,275/sq mi)
- Urban
- 640,307
- Rural
- 2,256,177
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00 ( CAT )
- Iso 3166 code
- RW-04
- Other settlements
- Gisenyi , Cyangugu
- Hdi 2023
- 0.565 , medium · 3rd of 5
- Website
- www .westernprovince .gov .rw
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Rwanda
- Official name
- Mkoa wa Magharibi
- Country
- Rwanda
- Located in
- Rwanda
- Capital
- Kibuye
- Population
- 2896484
- Area
- 5882
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Southern Province
- Official website
- www.westernprovince.gov.rw
- Image
- Scenery in Hills above Lake Kivu - Near Karongi-Kibuye - Western Rwanda - 02.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Western Province, Rwanda
- Commons category
- West Province, Rwanda
- inception
- 2006-00-00
- native label
- Province de l'Ouest
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Western Province (Kinyarwanda: Intara y'Iburengerazuba; French: Province de l'Ouest; Dutch: West-provincie) is one of Rwanda's five provinces. It was created in early January 2006 as part of a government decentralization program that re-organized the country's local government structures.
Western Province comprises the former provinces of Cyangugu, Gisenyi, Kibuye, and a small portion of Ruhengeri. It is divided into the districts of Karongi, Nyabihu, Rubavu, Rusizi, Ngororero, Nyamasheke, and Rutsiro. The capital city of Western Province is Kibuye.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Western Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.