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The 2002 census counted 891,498 people in the province, including 475,424 women and 416,074 men, making
Ruhengeri the most populous province of Rwanda, with 11% of the nation's population. It was the fourth most populous province at the time of the 1991 census, which counted 769,297 people, and the
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It had an area of 1,651.2 square kilometres, of which 1,439.2 are considered habitable. The region is mountainous, and includes the 4,507-meter dormant volcano,
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was 15.8 years. Most of the inhabitants, 819,987 people, were living in rural areas, with 71,551 in urban areas like the city of
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provinces. The province was in the north of the country, bordered to the north by
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fourth most populous in the 1978 census, which counted 531,927.
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