Burundi

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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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

  • Type: Country with 10,600,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state in Africa
  • Also known as: “BDI”, “bi”, “BI”, “Burundi dásseváldi”, “Burundi Köztársaság”, “Burundi Republika”, “Burundi täsiväldi”, “Burundi Vabariik”, “Burundin tasavalta”, “Burundská republika”, “Burunndi republihkka”, “Burunndi republijkka”, “Buruund tääʹssväʹldd”, “Cộng hoà Burundi”, “Cộng hòa Burundi”, “Gouvernement du Burundi”, “Jamhuri ya Burundi”, “la République du Burundi”, “RB”, “Repubblika tal-Burundi”, “Republic of Burundi”, “Republica de Burundi”, “Republiek Burundi”, “Republik Burundi”, “Republika Burundi”, “Republika y’Uburundi”, “Republiken Burundi”, “Republikken Burundi”, “Respubliko Burundo”, “Serikali ya Burundi”, “Urundi”, “Vurundee”, “Δημοκρατία του Μπουρουντί”, “Республика Бурунди”, “Республіка Бурунді”, “बरुंडी”, “बुरुंडी रिपब्लिक”, “रिपब्लिक ऑफ बुरुंडी”, “ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್ ಆಪ್ ಬುರುಂಡಿ”, “สาธารณรัฐบุรุนดี”, “อุรุนดี”, “ປະເທດບຸລຸນດີ”, “부룬디 공화국”, “ブルンディ”, “ブルンディ共和国”, “布隆迪共和国”, “布隆迪共和國”, and “蒲隆地共和國”
  • Languages: French and Rundi
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, landlocked country, and locality
  • Location: ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
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
1,601 metres (5,253 feet)
Capital
Currency
Franc (BIF)
Phone code
257
Internet domain
.bi
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”
  • Aymara: “Burundi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Burundi”
  • Balinese: “Burundi”
  • Bambara: “Burundi”
  • Banjar: “Burundi”
  • Bashkir: “Бурунди”
  • Basque: “Burundi”
  • Bavarian: “Burundi”
  • Belarusian: “Бурундзі”
  • Bengali: “বুরুণ্ডি”
  • Bengali: “বুরুন্ডি”
  • Betawi: “Burundi”
  • Bhojpuri: “बुरुंडी”
  • Bishnupriya: “বুরুন্ডি”
  • Bislama: “Burundi”
  • Bosnian: “Burundi”
  • Breton: “Burundi”
  • Bulgarian: “Бурунди”
  • Burmese: “ဘူရွန်ဒီ”
  • Burmese: “ဘူရွန်ဒီနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Burundi”
  • Cebuano: “Burundi”
  • Central Bikol: “Burundi”
  • Central Kanuri: “Burundi”
  • Central Kurdish: “بوروندی”
  • Chavacano: “Burundi”
  • Chechen: “Бурунди”
  • Cherokee: “ᏋᎷᏂᏗ”
  • Chinese: “Bùlóngdí”
  • Chinese: “布隆迪 / 蒲隆地”
  • Chinese: “布隆迪”
  • Chinese: “蒲隆地”
  • 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: “Burundi”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷུ་རུན་ཌི”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бурунди”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوروندى”
  • Esperanto: “Burundo”
  • Estonian: “Burundi”
  • Ewe: “Burundi nutome”
  • Ewe: “Burundi”
  • Extremaduran: “Burundi”
  • Faroese: “Burundi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Burundi”
  • Finnish: “Burundi”
  • French: “Burundi”
  • French: “République du Burundi”
  • Fulah: “Burunndi”
  • Ga: “Burundi”
  • Gagauz: “Burundi”
  • Galician: “Burundi”
  • Galician: “República de Burundi”
  • Ganda: “Burundi”
  • Georgian: “ბურუნდი”
  • German: “Burundi”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Burundi”
  • Gilaki: “بۊرۊندي”
  • Goan Konkani: “बुरुंडी”
  • 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”
  • Icelandic: “Búrúndí”
  • Ido: “Burundi”
  • Igbo: “Burundi”
  • Iloko: “Burundi”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Burundi”
  • Kabiyè: “Purundi”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Burundi”
  • Kabyle: “Burundi”
  • Kalaallisut: “Burundi”
  • Kalmyk: “Бурундин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಬುರುಂಡಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Burundi”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бурунди”
  • Karekare: “Burundi”
  • Kashmiri: “بُروٗنٛڈی”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Burundi”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Burundi”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Burundi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burundi”
  • Norwegian: “Burundi”
  • Novial: “Burundi”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “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”
  • Portuguese: “Burundi”
  • Pushto: “بروندي”
  • Pushto: “بوروندي”
  • Quechua: “Burundi”
  • Quechua: “Purunthi”
  • Romanian: “Burundi”
  • Romansh: “Burundi”
  • Rundi: “Republika y’u Burundi”
  • Rundi: “Repuburika y’Uburundi”
  • Rundi: “Uburundi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бурунди”
  • Russian: “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”
  • Slovak: “Burundi”
  • Slovenian: “Burundi”
  • Somali: “Burundi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوروندی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Burundi”
  • Spanish: “Burundi”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵓⵔⵓⵏⴷⵉ”
  • Sundanese: “Burundi”
  • Swahili: “Burundi”
  • Swati: “IBurundi”
  • Swedish: “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”
  • Tibetan: “བུ་རུན་ཌི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቡሩንዲ”
  • Tigrinya: “ብሩንዲ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pelaniti”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Puluniti”
  • Tsonga: “Burundi”
  • Tumbuka: “Burundi”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “بوروندي”
  • Turkish: “Burundi”
  • Turkmen: “Burundi”
  • Twi: “Burundi”
  • Udmurt: “Бурунди”
  • Uighur: “بۇرۇندى”
  • Ukrainian: “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”
  • 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”
  • “Burundi”
  • “ma Pulunsi”
  • “ma Upujuni”
  • “बुरुंडी”

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