Local time
Thu, 9:40 PM GMT+2Africa/KigaliCity
Butare
2.59° S, 29.73° E
- Population
- 77,000
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 6 of 11
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 11 cities of Rwanda in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Rwanda, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1920
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Huye District
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Africa/Kigali
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Butare, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Butare have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
