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Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. Home to approximately 9 million people, Rwanda supports the densest human population in continental Africa. A verdant country of fertile and hilly terrain, the small country bears the title "Land of a Thousand Hills" (Pays des Mille Collines; Igihugu cy'Imisozi Igihumbi).

Rwanda is a rural country with about 90% of the population engaged in agriculture. It has few natural resources and minimal industry. Primary exports are coffee and tea, with the addition in recent years of minerals (mainly coltan) and flowers. The country's prevalent use of subsistence agriculture and the resulting depletion of soil fertility, its dense and increasing population, as well as its uncertain climate have rendered Rwanda a country of endemic malnutrition and widespread poverty. It has a low gross national product (GNP) and has been identified as a Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC). (Read more...)