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Rwanda is a landlocked country located in the east of central Africa. It lies between 1°4´ and 2°51´south latitude, and 28°53´ and 30°53´ east longitude, and it covers an area of 26,338 km2. It lies approximately at 120 kilometres south of the Equator, at 1,100 kilometres from the Indian Ocean, at 1,920 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean, at 3,750 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, and at 3,980 km from South Africa Cape. It is bordered by Uganda at the North, Tanzania at the East, Burundi at the South and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the West.