Southern Province, Rwanda

Southern Province (Kinyarwanda: Intara y'Amajyepfo; French: Province du Sud; Dutch: Zuidelijke Provincie) is one of the five provinces of Rwanda. As of the 2022 census, 3,002,699 people lived there. It has an area of 5,963 km². The capital city is Nyanza.

Location of the Southern Province in Rwanda

It was created on 1 January 2006 from the former provinces of Gikongoro, Gitarama, and Butare. It has eight districts of Huye, Ruhango, Nyamagabe, Gisagara, Muhanga, Kamonyi, Nyanza, and Nyaruguru.