Blank Map of Rwanda

Rwanda’s four provinces and Kigali, with Lake Kivu along the western side.

Blank Map of Rwanda

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Write the name of each numbered place.Answer key

  1. Kigali
  2. Northern Province
  3. Southern Province
  4. Eastern Province
  5. Western Province

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each place is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a place is answered.

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  1. Kigali The capital city, a small shape near the middle.
  2. Northern Province The smallest province, on the border with Uganda.
  3. Southern Province Along the southern border with Burundi.
  4. Eastern Province The largest province, along the border with Tanzania.
  5. Western Province Along Lake Kivu, on the western side.

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01. The list is today's: four provinces (Eastern, Northern, Southern, Western) and the City of Kigali, five shapes, as since 1 January 2006. Checked on 2026-10-01 against the Government of Rwanda's overview page, https://www.gov.rw/overview ("4 Provinces and the City of Kigali"), the ISO 3166-2:RW list as printed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:RW (one city and four provinces, with the English, French and Kinyarwanda names) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Rwanda. The boundary file calls the provinces Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western; the labels add the word Province and the bare word is accepted. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Water cut out of the shapes from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_lakes (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 2°S 29.9°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of Rwanda shows its four provinces and the City of Kigali as five shapes, with Lake Kivu as open water on the west. Switch Borders off and it prints as a plain outline of Rwanda.

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Blank, numbered or named

The sheet opens blank. Choose Numbered to put a number on each of the five shapes, or Named for their names, then press Print this map. The answer key prints on a sheet of its own.

Four provinces and a city

The provinces are named for the compass: the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Province, in place since 2006. Kigali, the capital, is a city with the rank of a province. It is the small shape near the middle of the map.

  • With only five names to write, there is room to add the four neighboring countries around the outline by hand.

Questions and answers

How many provinces does Rwanda have?

Four: the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Province. The City of Kigali has the same rank, so the map numbers five shapes. Before 2006 the country had 12 provinces.

Where is Kigali on the map?

Near the middle of the country. Kigali is the capital and largest city, and its shape is the smallest of the five, between the Northern, Eastern and Southern Province.

Is Lake Kivu on the map?

Yes. The lake lies on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is drawn as open water beside the Western Province, with the border running through it, and has no name or number.

Which countries border Rwanda?

Four: the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, Burundi to the south, Tanzania to the east and Uganda to the north. Rwanda has no coast. The neighbors are drawn as plain land, without names.

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