English: Communes of Rwanda in 1994.

This map can easily be customized; every commune has its own path which can be colored to your liking by Inkscape.

The most important sources for this map are these:

• Guichaoua, André (August 1998) Local government in Rwanda: Expert report prepared at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, ICTR Record Number: 13685, Exhibit Number: P31B in ICTR-01-74. This document contains a map of the Rwandan communes. Although the map is undated, I have been able to verify (with the map on p. 238 of Guichaoua's 2005 book called Rwanda 1994: les politiques du génocide à Butare) that the map reflects the situation in 1994; the only exception is the prefecture of Kigali-Ville which is not pictured in Guichaoua's maps even though he writes about it on page 14 of the 1998 report. I have found maps of Kigali-Ville elsewhere. It can be found, for example, at the end of of Marie Béatrice Umutesi's book Fuir ou Mourir au Zaïre
• The lakes and roads are taken from UN maps of the period, such as Map No. 3717 Rev. 1 (November 1993) and Map No. 3717 Rev. 6 (December 1995). The roads are the same for these two maps. These maps can be found in the UN Digital Library.
• The rivers are taken from this article: (6 July 2020). "Mapping spatio-temporal variations in water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) coverage on Rwandan water bodies using multispectral imageries". International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. DOI:10.1007/s13762-020-02824-8.

List of communes (145 communes in 11 prefectures)

I have earlier made a map of Rwandan communes after the creation of the prefecture of Umutara in 1996 (File:Communes_of_Rwanda.svg). This was because I was unable to find maps with commune names for 1994.