Rwamagana is a district (''akarere'') in
Eastern Province, Rwanda
Eastern Province ( rw, Intara y'Iburasirazuba; french: Province de l'Est; nl, Oostelijke Provincie) is the largest, the most populous and the least densely populated of Rwanda's five provinces. It was created in early January 2006 as part of ...
. Its capital is
Rwamagana
Rwamagana is a city and capital of both the Rwamagana District and the Eastern Province in Rwanda
Description
Rwamagana lies approximately from Kigali, on the newly renovated road leading east towards Tanzania. There was formerly a large am ...
city, which is also the provincial capital.
Sectors
Rwamagana district is divided into 14
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 p ...
(''imirenge''): Fumbwe, Gahengeri, Gishari, Karenge, Kigabiro, Muhazi, Munyaga, Munyiginya, Musha, Muyumbu, Mwulire, Nyakariro, Nzige and Rubona.
Rwamagana is 'a place of a hundred things' in Kinyarwanda, as it contains the word 'magana' a word meaning 'one-hundred' in many bantu dialects. The district's name 'Rwamagana' was meant to imply a place of abundance.
External links
*
Rwamagana District government website
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Districts of Rwanda