Mukarange covers an area of 53.8 km2 and lies at an altitude of about 1,580 meters.

The sector is divided into five cells: Bwiza, Kayonza, Mburabuturo, Nyagatovu and Rugendabari.

Gahini is the neighboring sector to the north, Mwiri to the east, Nyamirama to the south and Muhazi to the west.

Ten years earlier, it had been 42,055, which corresponds to an annual population increase of 2.7 percent between 2012 and 2022.

[2][5] National Road 24 runs through the sector in a north–south direction.