Population 199,579 (July 2007 est.): mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese)

Capital City Kigali

Languages Portuguese (official)
Official Currency Dobra

Religions Catholic 70.3%, Evangelical 3.4%, New Apostolic 2%, Adventist 1.8%, other 3.1%, none 19.4% (2001 census)



Land


Land Area 960 sq km (371 sq miles) - more than five times the size of Washington, DC

Natural Resources: oil, fish, hydropower
Terrain: volcanic, mountainous. They are the smallest country in Africa; the two main islands form part of a chain of extinct volcanoes and both are fairly mountainous
Location: Western Africa, islands in the Gulf of Guinea, straddling the Equator, west of Gabon