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Rwanda

national flag of Rwanda

How to Distinguish

  • Cars drive on the right
  • The domain is .rw
  • Roads are clean with little trash and well‑trimmed grass
  • License plates are slim: white front and yellow rear
  • Mobile payment is widespread; kiosks for operators like MTN are common
  • Square utility poles appear
  • Distinctive Google car

In Rwanda, a mandatory community service called Umuganda includes road cleaning, mowing, and trimming street trees each week (参考文献 Umuganda). As a result, roads look relatively clean for Africa. There is little trash , and even unpaved roads often have neatly cut grass .

In Kigali, larger roads have many motorcycles . Unlike Uganda, cars drive on the right. Plates are slim and can be yellow or white.

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MTN and airtel, Rwanda’s mobile carriers, set up umbrella kiosks in many places . Their logos also appear around town . These kiosks serve like ATMs for mobile money (参考文献 Rwanda and cashless payments (JP)). They also operate in Uganda and Ghana.

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The Google car is distinctive . It may be invisible at times .

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  • There are volcanoes near the northern border, and the soil around them looks black

In town the soil is black , and from the outskirts you can see the volcanoes.

Wikimedia Commons photo showing Musanze's Volcano (46355800961)

Andrew Moore from Johannesburg, South Africa - Musanze's Volcano, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

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  • There are towns and roads along Lake Kivu on the DRC side (参考文献 Lake Kivu)
  • Butare has many universities and cobblestone streets

One of the African Great Lakes .

Rwanda GeoGuessr guide image showing Home St Jean View

Street names often start with SH ?

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