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Rwanda

Every year Rwanda holds a ceremony called Kwita Izina to name the baby mountain gorillas born on its volcanoes, just as families there traditionally name a newborn child.

Where its story happens

Volcanoes National Park, at 1.47°S, 29.49°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.

Five things to know about Rwanda

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Rwanda, a small landlocked country in East Africa, between Uganda, Tanzania and DR Congo. See Rwanda on a map.
  2. Mountain gorillas live on its misty volcanoes, where Dian Fossey studied them, and its capital is Kigali.
  3. It is a small, mountainous country known as the land of a thousand hills.
  4. On the last Saturday of every month, people across the country spend the morning cleaning up their neighbourhoods.
  5. In 2008 it became the first country to elect a parliament in which women outnumbered men.

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