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Bujumbura Mairie Province
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Bujumbura

Bujumbura is the former capital and largest city of . It is on the north-eastern shore of , the second deepest lake in the world after .
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  • Type: City with 659,000 residents
  • Description: former capital of Burundi
  • Also known as: “Buja”
  • Historically known as: “Usumbura”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Intwari Stadium and Holy Spirit Lycée.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium in Bujumbura, Burundi. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 22,000 and is currently the biggest stadium in the country.

School
Holy Spirit Lyceum is a Catholic secondary school located in Gihosha, Bujumbura, . The school was founded by the Rwanda Burundi Region of the Society of Jesus in 1952; and it covers ages 11 through 18 and has about 920 students.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Commune of Buyenzi.

Suburb
Photo: Arthur Nkunzimana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a historic commune of in western . The district is known for its Swahili heritage and influence not just in Bujumbura but Burundi as a whole.

Bujumbura

Latitude
-3.3638° or 3° 21′ 50″ south
Longitude
29.3675° or 29° 22′ 3″ east
Population
659,000
Elevation
807 metres (2,648 feet)
IATA airport code
BJM
United Nations Location Code
BI BJM
Open location code
6G8FJ9P9+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60715062
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
425378
Wiki­data ID
Q3854
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bujumbura” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bujumbura”
  • Albanian: “Buzhumbura”
  • Amharic: “ቡጁምቡራ”
  • Arabic: “بوجومبورا”
  • Aragonese: “Buyumbura”
  • Armenian: “Բուժումբուրա”
  • Arpitan: “Buj·umbura”
  • Asturian: “Buxumbura”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bujumbura”
  • Balinese: “Bujumbura”
  • Basque: “Bujumbura”
  • Belarusian: “Бужумбура”
  • Bengali: “বুজুম্বুরা”
  • Bosnian: “Bujumbura”
  • Breton: “Bujumbura”
  • Bulgarian: “Бужумбура”
  • Catalan: “Bujumbura”
  • Catalan: “Mbabane”
  • Cebuano: “Bujumbura”
  • Central Kanuri: “Bujumbura”
  • Central Kurdish: “بوجومبورا”
  • Chechen: “Бужумбура”
  • Chinese: “Bujumbura”
  • Chinese: “布松布拉”
  • Chinese: “布琼布拉”
  • Cornish: “Bujumbura”
  • Croatian: “Bujumbura”
  • Czech: “Bujumbura”
  • Danish: “Bujumbura”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bucumbura”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bujumbura”
  • Dutch: “Bujumbura”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوجومبورا”
  • Esperanto: “Buĵumburo”
  • Estonian: “Bujumbura”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bujumbura”
  • Finnish: “Bujumbura”
  • French: “Buja”
  • French: “Bujumbura-Mairie”
  • French: “Bujumbura”
  • Galician: “Bujumbura”
  • Georgian: “ბუჟუმბურა”
  • German: “Bujumbura”
  • Greek: “Μπουζουμπούρα”
  • Gujarati: “બુજુમ્બુરા”
  • Haitian: “Boujoumboura”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bujumbura”
  • Hausa: “Bujumbura”
  • Hebrew: “בוג’ומבורה”
  • Hebrew: “בוגומבורה”
  • Hindi: “बुजुम्बुरा”
  • Hungarian: “Bujumbura”
  • Icelandic: “Bújúmbúra”
  • Ido: “Bujumbura”
  • Iloko: “Bujumbura”
  • Inari Sami: “Bujumbura”
  • Indonesian: “Bujumbura”
  • Interlingue: “Bujumbura”
  • Inupiaq: “Putchumpuraq”
  • Irish: “Bujumbura”
  • Italian: “Bujumbura”
  • Japanese: “ブジュンブラ”
  • Javanese: “Bujumbura”
  • Kabiyè: “Puzumbura”
  • Kabyle: “Bujumbura”
  • Kannada: “ಬುಜುಂಬುರಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Бужумбура”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bujumbura”
  • Kirghiz: “Бужумбура”
  • Kongo: “Bujumbura”
  • Korean: “부줌부라”
  • Kurdish: “Bujumbura”
  • Latin: “Bujumbura”
  • Latvian: “Budžumbura”
  • Latvian: “Buža”
  • Latvian: “Bužumbura”
  • Ligurian: “Bujumbura”
  • Lingala: “Bujumbúra”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bujumbura”
  • Lithuanian: “Bužumbūra”
  • Lombard: “Bujumbura”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bujumbura”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bujumbura”
  • Macedonian: “Буџумбура”
  • Malagasy: “Bujumbura”
  • Malay: “Bujumbura”
  • Malayalam: “ബുജുംബുറ”
  • Marathi: “बुजुंबुरा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bujumbura”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bujumbura”
  • Mingrelian: “ბუჟუმბურა”
  • Mongolian: “Бужумбура”
  • Nauru: “Bujumbura”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bujumbura”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bujumbura”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bujumbura”
  • Norwegian: “Bujumbura”
  • Novial: “Bujumbura”
  • Nyanja: “Bujumbura”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bujumbura”
  • Oriya: “ବୁଜୁମବୁରା”
  • Ossetian: “Бужумбурæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਜੁੰਬੁਰਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Bujumbura”
  • Persian: “بوجومبورا”
  • Piemontese: “Bujumbura”
  • Polish: “Bużumbura”
  • Portuguese: “Bujumbura”
  • Pushto: “بوجومبورا”
  • Quechua: “Bujumbura”
  • Romanian: “Bujumbura”
  • Rundi: “Buja”
  • Rundi: “Bujumbura”
  • Russian: “Бужумбура”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱩᱡᱩᱢᱵᱩᱨᱟ”
  • Scots: “Bujumbura”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bujumbura”
  • Serbian: “Буџумбура”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bujumbura”
  • Shona: “Bujumbura”
  • Silesian: “Bużumbura”
  • Sinhala: “බුජුම්බුරා”
  • Slovak: “Bujumbura”
  • Slovenian: “Bujumbura”
  • Somali: “Bujumbura”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوجومبورا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Bujumbura”
  • Spanish: “Buyumbura”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵓⵊⵓⵎⴱⵓⵔⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Bujumbura”
  • Swedish: “Bujumbura”
  • Tachelhit: “Bujumbura”
  • Tagalog: “Bujumbura”
  • Tajik: “Буҷумбура”
  • Tamil: “புசும்புரா”
  • Telugu: “బుజంబుర”
  • Thai: “บูจุมบูรา”
  • Tibetan: “བུ་ཇུམ་བུ་ར།”
  • Turkish: “Bujumbura”
  • Turkmen: “Bujumbura”
  • Udmurt: “Бужумбура”
  • Ukrainian: “Бужумбура”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bujumbura”
  • Urdu: “بوجمبورا”
  • Urdu: “بوجومبرا”
  • Uzbek: “Bujumbura”
  • Venetian: “Bujumbura”
  • Veps: “Bužumbur”
  • Vietnamese: “Bujumbura”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bujumbura”
  • Welsh: “Bujumbura”
  • Western Frisian: “Bujumbura”
  • Western Frisian: “Bûjûmbûra”
  • Western Mari: “Бужумбура”
  • Western Panjabi: “باجمبورا”
  • Wolof: “Bujumbura”
  • Wu Chinese: “布琼布拉”
  • Yiddish: “בוזשומבורע”
  • Yoruba: “Bujumbura”
  • Yue Chinese: “布松布拉”
  • Zulu: “Bujumbura”
  • “Buyumbura”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bujumbura”. Photo: Edouard mhg, CC BY-SA 4.0.