Rwanda country codes

Rwanda at a glance

The ISO country identifiers for Rwanda are RW, RWA, and 646. Select the format your form or system requests.

Namename

Rwanda

Native name in sourcenative_name

Rwanda

Capital / administrative centrecapital

Kigali

Continentcontinent

Africa (AF)

Regionregion

Africa

Sub-regionsub_region

Sub-Saharan Africa

Calling prefixes, currency & internet domain

International calling prefixdial_code

+250

Currency referencecurrency_code

RWFRwandan Franc

Country-code domaintld

.rw

A listed telephone prefix may combine a shared country calling code with an area code. It is not a complete phone number.

Languages & native names

Languages listed for Rwanda in the reference source, with native language names where available. This is not an exhaustive list of the languages spoken or a statement of their legal status.

The small codes are source language tags. A tag such as en-US includes a language and a regional variant; it is different from an ISO country code on its own.

Rwanda time zones

1 identifier is listed for RW in IANA zone.tab, release 2026d. Time-zone identifiers describe clock-rule locations, not fixed UTC offsets.

• Africa/Kigali

UTC offsets and daylight-saving rules depend on the date and location. Use the time-zone converter to compare local times for a chosen date.

ISO, sporting & legacy identifiers

These code systems serve different purposes. Similar-looking codes can refer to different places or organisations.

ISO alpha-2iso_alpha_2

RW

ISO alpha-3iso_alpha_3

RWA

ISO numericiso_numeric

646

FIFA referencefifa

RWA

IOC referenceioc

RWA

Legacy FIPS-style referencefips

RW

FIFA and IOC values are source references, not confirmation of current membership or event participation. FIPS 10-4 was withdrawn in 2008; legacy FIPS-style values are for interpreting older datasets and must not replace current ISO codes.

Sources & reference notes

The base record is from ListBase.org v2026.08. English and native country names use Annexare Countries, language names use Annexare and runtime display-name data, time zones use IANA 2026d, and the locally hosted flag is from flag-icons.