Mukarange (Kinyarwanda Umurenge wa Mukarange) is a town and
sector
Sector may refer to:
Places
* Sector, West Virginia, U.S.
Geometry
* Circular sector, the portion of a disc enclosed by two radii and a circular arc
* Hyperbolic sector, a region enclosed by two radii and a hyperbolic arc
* Spherical sector, a po ...
in
Kayonza District
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in
Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by ...
's
Eastern Province. It is the capital of the district.
Geography
Mukarange covers an area of 53.8 km
2 and lies at an altitude of about 1,580 meters. The sector is divided into five cells:
Bwiza,
Kayonza,
Mburabuturo,
Nyagatovu and
Rugendabari.
Gahini
Gahini is a sector and village in Kayonza District, Eastern Province, Rwanda. It is situated on a hill, at an altitude of 1,520 metres (4,990 ft) above sea-level, close to the eastern edge of Lake Muhazi and by road from the capital, K ...
is the neighboring sector to the north,
Mwiri to the east,
Nyamirama to the south and
Muhazi to the west. The town of
Kayonza is located within Mukarange.
Demographics
The census in 2022 put the population at 54,818. Ten years earlier, it had been 42,055, which corresponds to an annual population increase of 2.7 percent between 2012 and 2022.
Transport
National Road 24 runs through the sector in a north–south direction.
National Road 4 branches off to the west in the center of Kayonza, and a district road branches off to the northeast.
References
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Sectors of Rwanda
Eastern Province, Rwanda