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Burundi is a small country in , although it has some cultural and geographical ties with . It is surrounded by , and the .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Bujumbura and Gitega.

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is the former capital and largest city of Burundi. It is on the north-eastern shore of , the second deepest lake in the world after .

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is the second largest city of Burundi and since 2019 the national political capital, as well as the capital of the Province.

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is a town in the southern region of Burundi and the capital of Province. It is known for its scenic highlands, rich biodiversity, and cultural heritage.

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is a city of 24,000 people in Burundi near the border with the .

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is a vital national park located in northwestern Burundi. Covering approximately 400 km² and spanning four provinces, it lies atop the mountains of the Congo-Nile Divide.

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is located 15 kilometres north of in Burundi. It is home to Gustave, the infamous man-eating crocodile.

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is in the western part of Burundi. It is one of the communes of the province of Bujumbura and is on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

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Bururi Forest National Reserve is a protected area located in southwestern Burundi, covering an expanse of 3,300 hectares of altitude damp forest. Established in 1951 and classified as a wilderness area, it is managed by the Institut National pour l’Environnement et la Conservation de la Nature.

Burundi

Latitude of center
-3.45° or 3° 27′ south
Longitude of center
29.99° or 29° 59′ 24″ east
Population
10,600,000
Area
27,830 km² (10,745 miles²)
Elevation
1,732 metres (5,682 feet)
Capital
Currency
Franc (BIF)
Phone code
.bi
Internet domain
257
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424310982
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
433561
Wiki­data ID
Q967
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Burundi” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Бурунди”
  • Achinese: “Burundi”
  • Afrikaans: “Burundi”
  • Akan: “Burundi”
  • Albanian: “Burundi”
  • Amharic: “ቡሩንዲ”
  • Amharic: “ብሩንዲ”
  • Amis: “Burundi”
  • Arabic: “بوروندي”
  • Aragonese: “Burundi”
  • Armenian: “Բուրունդի”
  • Arpitan: “Burundi”
  • Assamese: “বুৰুণ্ডি”
  • Assamese: “বুৰুণ্ডী”
  • Asturian: “Burundi”
  • Atayal: “Burundi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Burundi”
  • Balinese: “Burundi”
  • Bambara: “Burundi”
  • Banjar: “Burundi”
  • Bashkir: “Бурунди”
  • Basque: “Burundi”
  • Bavarian: “Burundi”
  • Belarusian: “Бурундзі”
  • Bengali: “বুরুণ্ডি”
  • Bengali: “বুরুন্ডি”
  • Betawi: “Burundi”
  • Bhojpuri: “बरुंडी”
  • Bhojpuri: “बुरुंडी रिपब्लिक”
  • Bhojpuri: “बुरुंडी”
  • Bhojpuri: “रिपब्लिक ऑफ बुरुंडी”
  • Bishnupriya: “বুরুন্ডি”
  • Bislama: “Burundi”
  • Bosnian: “Burundi”
  • Breton: “Burundi”
  • Bulgarian: “Бурунди”
  • Burmese: “ဘူရွန်ဒီ”
  • Burmese: “ဘူရွန်ဒီနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “BDI”
  • Catalan: “Burundi”
  • Catalan: “Republica de Burundi”
  • Catalan: “República de Burundi”
  • Cebuano: “Burundi”
  • Central Bikol: “Burundi”
  • Central Kanuri: “Burundi”
  • Central Kurdish: “بوروندی”
  • Chavacano: “Burundi”
  • Chechen: “Бурунди”
  • Cherokee: “ᏋᎷᏂᏗ”
  • Chinese: “Bùlóngdí”
  • Chinese: “Burundi”
  • Chinese: “布隆迪 / 蒲隆地”
  • Chinese: “布隆迪”
  • Chinese: “布隆迪共和国”
  • Chinese: “布隆迪共和國”
  • Chinese: “蒲隆地”
  • Chinese: “蒲隆地共和國”
  • Chuvash: “Бурунди”
  • Cornish: “Burundi”
  • Corsican: “Burundi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Burundi”
  • Croatian: “Burundi”
  • Czech: “Burundi”
  • Dagbani: “Burundi”
  • Danish: “Burundi”
  • Dhivehi: “ބުރުންޑީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Burundi”
  • Dinka: “Brundi”
  • Dotyali: “बुरुन्डी”
  • Dutch: “BDI”
  • Dutch: “BI”
  • Dutch: “Burundi”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Burundi”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷུ་རུན་ཌི”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бурунди”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوروندى”
  • Esperanto: “Burundo”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Burundo”
  • Estonian: “Burundi Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Burundi”
  • Ewe: “Burundi nutome”
  • Ewe: “Burundi”
  • Extremaduran: “Burundi”
  • Faroese: “Burundi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Burundi”
  • Finnish: “Burundi”
  • Finnish: “Burundin tasavalta”
  • French: “BI”
  • French: “Burundi”
  • French: “la République du Burundi”
  • French: “République du Burundi”
  • Fulah: “Burunndi”
  • Ga: “Burundi”
  • Gagauz: “Burundi”
  • Galician: “Burundi”
  • Galician: “República de Burundi”
  • Galician: “Republika y’u Burundi”
  • Ganda: “Burundi”
  • Georgian: “ბურუნდი”
  • German: “Burundi”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Burundi”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Burundi”
  • Gilaki: “بۊرۊندي”
  • Goan Konkani: “बुरुंडी”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία του Μπουρουντί”
  • Greek: “Μπουρούντι”
  • Guarani: “Vurundi”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Burundi”
  • Gujarati: “બુરુંડી”
  • Gujarati: “બુરુન્ડી”
  • Haitian: “Bouroundi”
  • Haitian: “Bouwoundi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Burundi”
  • Hausa: “Burundi”
  • Hebrew: “בורונדי”
  • Hindi: “बरंडी”
  • Hindi: “बुरुंडी”
  • Hindi: “बुरुण्डी”
  • Hungarian: “Burundi Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Burundi”
  • Icelandic: “Búrúndí”
  • Ido: “Burundi”
  • Igbo: “Burundi”
  • Iloko: “Burundi”
  • Inari Sami: “Burundi täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Burundi”
  • Indonesian: “Burundi”
  • Interlingua: “Burundi”
  • Interlingue: “Burundi”
  • Inupiaq: “Purunni”
  • Irish: “an Bhurúin”
  • Irish: “An Bhurúin”
  • Italian: “Burundi”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Burundi”
  • Japanese: “ブルンジ”
  • Japanese: “ブルンジ共和国”
  • Japanese: “ブルンディ”
  • Japanese: “ブルンディ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Burundi”
  • Kabiyè: “Purundi”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Burundi”
  • Kabyle: “Burundi”
  • Kalaallisut: “Burundi”
  • Kalmyk: “Бурундин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಬುರುಂಡಿ”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್ ಆಪ್ ಬುರುಂಡಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Burundi”
  • Kashmiri: “بورَنڈِ”
  • Kashmiri: “बुरुंडी”
  • Kazakh: “Бурунди”
  • Khmer: “ប៊ូរុនឌី”
  • Kikuyu: “Burundi”
  • Kikuyu: “Mburundi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Uburundi”
  • Kirghiz: “Бурунди”
  • Kongo: “Burundi”
  • Korean: “부룬디”
  • Kotava: “Burundia”
  • Kurdish: “Burundî”
  • Kurdish: “Bûrûndî”
  • Kurdish: “بوروندی”
  • Ladin: “Burundi”
  • Ladino: “Burundi”
  • Lao: “ບູຣຸນດິ”
  • Lao: “ບູລັນຕິ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດບູຣູນດີ”
  • Latgalian: “Burundi”
  • Latin: “Burundia”
  • Latvian: “Burundi Republika”
  • Latvian: “Burundi”
  • Latvian: “Burundija”
  • Ligurian: “Burundi”
  • Limburgan: “Boeroendi”
  • Limburgan: “Burundi”
  • Lingala: “Burundi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Burundi”
  • Literary Chinese: “蒲隆地”
  • Lithuanian: “Burundis”
  • Livvi: “Burundi”
  • Lombard: “Burundi”
  • Low German: “Burundi”
  • Low German: “Republik Burundi”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Burundi”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Burundi”
  • Lule Sami: “Burunndi republihkka”
  • Lule Sami: “Burunndi republijkka”
  • Lule Sami: “Burunndi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Burundi”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Burundi”
  • Macedonian: “Бурунди”
  • Malagasy: “Borondi”
  • Malagasy: “Borondia”
  • Malagasy: “Borondy”
  • Malay: “Burundi”
  • Malayalam: “ബറുണ്ടി”
  • Malayalam: “ബുറുണ്ടി”
  • Maltese: “Burundi”
  • Maltese: “il-Burundi”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Burundi”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯨꯔꯨꯟꯗꯤ”
  • Manx: “Burundee”
  • Maori: “Puruniti”
  • Marathi: “बुरुंडी”
  • Mazanderani: “بوروندی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Burundi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Burundi”
  • Minangkabau: “Burundi”
  • Mingrelian: “ბურუნდი”
  • Mirandese: “Burundi”
  • Moksha: “Бурунди”
  • Mongolian: “Бурунди”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوروندي”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߎߙߎ߲ߘߌ߫”
  • Nauru: “Burundi”
  • Navajo: “Wóndii Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “बुरुन्डी”
  • Nepali: “बुरूण्डी”
  • Newari: “बुरुन्डी”
  • North Ndebele: “Bhurundi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Burundi”
  • Northern Luri: “بوروندی”
  • Northern Sami: “Burundi dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Burundi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Burundi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Burundi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burundi”
  • Norwegian: “Burundi”
  • Novial: “Burundi”
  • Obolo: “Burundi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Burundi”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Burundi”
  • Oriya: “ବୁରୁଣ୍ଡି”
  • Oriya: “ବୁରୁନ୍ଦି”
  • Oromo: “Buruundii”
  • Ossetian: “Бурунди”
  • Pali: “बुरुंडी”
  • Pampanga: “Burundi”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਰੁੰਡੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਰੂੰਡੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Burundi”
  • Pedi: “Burundi”
  • Persian: “بروندی”
  • Persian: “بوراندی”
  • Persian: “بوروندی”
  • Picard: “Burundi”
  • Piemontese: “Burundi”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Burundi”
  • Polish: “Burundi”
  • Polish: “RB”
  • Polish: “Republika Burundi”
  • Portuguese: “Burundi”
  • Pushto: “بروندي”
  • Pushto: “بوروندي”
  • Quechua: “Burundi”
  • Quechua: “Purunthi”
  • Romanian: “Burundi”
  • Romansh: “Burundi”
  • Rundi: “Republika y’u Burundi”
  • Rundi: “Republika y’Uburundi”
  • Rundi: “Uburundi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бурунди”
  • Russian: “Бурунди”
  • Russian: “Республика Бурунди”
  • Rusyn: “Бурунді”
  • Sakizaya: “Burundi”
  • Samoan: “Burundi”
  • Samogitian: “Burundis”
  • Sango: “Burundïi”
  • Sanskrit: “बुरुंडी”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱩᱨᱩᱱᱰᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Burundi”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Burundi”
  • Scots: “Burundi”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Burundaidh”
  • Serbian: “Burundi”
  • Serbian: “Бурунди”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Burundi”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပူႇရုၼ်းတီႇ”
  • Shona: “Burundi”
  • Shona: “Vurundi”
  • Sicilian: “Burundi”
  • Silesian: “Burůndi”
  • Sindhi: “برونڊي”
  • Sinhala: “බුරුන්ඩි”
  • Sinhala: “බුරුන්දි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Burundd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Buruund tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Slovak: “Burundi”
  • Slovak: “Burundská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Burundi”
  • Somali: “Burundi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوروندی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Burundi”
  • Spanish: “Burundi”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Burundi”
  • Spanish: “República de Burundi”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵓⵔⵓⵏⴷⵉ”
  • Sundanese: “Burundi”
  • Swahili: “bi”
  • Swahili: “Burundi”
  • Swahili: “Jamhuri ya Burundi”
  • Swahili: “Republika y’Uburundi”
  • Swahili: “Serikali ya Burundi”
  • Swati: “IBurundi”
  • Swedish: “Burundi”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Burundi”
  • Swiss German: “Burundi”
  • Tachelhit: “Burundi”
  • Tagalog: “Burundi”
  • Tajik: “Бурунди”
  • Tajik: “Бурундӣ”
  • Talysh: “Burundi”
  • Talysh: “Burundu”
  • Tamil: “புருண்டி”
  • Taroko: “Burundi”
  • Tatar: “Бурунди”
  • Telugu: “బురుండి”
  • Thai: “บุรุนดี”
  • Thai: “ประเทศบุรุนดี”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐบุรุนดี”
  • Thai: “อุรุนดี”
  • Tibetan: “བུ་རུན་ཌི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቡሩንዲ”
  • Tigrinya: “ብሩንዲ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pelaniti”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Puluniti”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Burundi”
  • Tsonga: “Burundi”
  • Tumbuka: “Burundi”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “بوروندي”
  • Turkish: “Burundi”
  • Turkmen: “Burundi”
  • Twi: “Burundi”
  • Udmurt: “Бурунди”
  • Uighur: “بۇرۇندى”
  • Ukrainian: “Бурунді”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Бурунді”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Burundi”
  • Urdu: “برنڈی”
  • Urdu: “برونڈی”
  • Uzbek: “Burundi”
  • Venetian: “Burundi”
  • Veps: “Burundi”
  • Vietnamese: “Bu-run-đi (Burundi)”
  • Vietnamese: “Bu-run-đi”
  • Vietnamese: “Burundi”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Burundi”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Burundi”
  • Vlaams: “Burundi”
  • Vlax Romani: “Burundi”
  • Volapük: “Rundiyän”
  • Võro: “Burundi”
  • Walloon: “Bouroundi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Burundi”
  • Welsh: “Burundi”
  • Welsh: “Bwrwndi”
  • Western Armenian: “Պուրունտի”
  • Western Balochi: “بوروندا”
  • Western Frisian: “Boerûndy”
  • Western Frisian: “Burundi”
  • Western Frisian: “Bûrûndy”
  • Western Mari: “Бурунди”
  • Western Panjabi: “برنڈی”
  • Western Panjabi: “برونڈی”
  • Wolof: “Burundi”
  • Wolof: “Buruundi”
  • Wu Chinese: “布隆迪”
  • Xhosa: “Burundi”
  • Yakut: “Бурунди”
  • Yiddish: “בורונדי”
  • Yoruba: “Bùrúndì”
  • Yoruba: “Bùùrúndì”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Bùùrúndì”
  • Yue Chinese: “布隆迪”
  • Zeeuws: “Burundi”
  • Zhuang: “Burundi”
  • Zulu: “i-Burundi”
  • Zulu: “IBhurundi”
  • Zulu: “IBurundi”
  • “BDI”
  • “BI”
  • “Burundi”
  • “Burundis”
  • “ma Upujuni”
  • “बुरुंडी”

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