Murama (
Kinyarwanda
Kinyarwanda, Rwandan or Rwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda. It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in adjacent parts of the Democratic Republic of the ...
: Umurenge wa Murama) is one of the 12
sectors
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 ...
in
Kayonza District
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...
in
Rwanda's Eastern Province.
Geography
Murama covers an area of 69.06 km² and lies at an altitude of about 1,680 m. The sector is divided into five cells:
Bunyentongo,
Muko,
Murama,
Nyakanazi and
Rusave. It borders
Rwinkwavu
Rwinkwavu (Kinyarwanda: Umurenge wa Rwinkwavu) is one of the 12 sectors in the district of Kayonza in the Eastern Province of Rwanda.
Geography
Rwinkwavu sector covers an area of 92.32 km2 and lies at an altitude of about 1,430 m. Th ...
to the north,
Kabare to the east,
Kibungo
Kibungo is a town and sector in the Republic of Rwanda. It is the political, administrative and commercial capital of Ngoma District. In 1998, Kibungo became the site of at least four of Rwanda's last 22 executions. All of the convicts were execu ...
to the south,
Remera to the southwest and
Kabarondo to the west..
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Demographics
The census of 2022 counted 23,381 inhabitants. Ten years earlier, it was 19,945, which corresponds to an annual population increase of 1.6 percent between 2012 and 2022.
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Reference
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Sectors of Rwanda
Eastern Province, Rwanda