Burundi
Gitega Province
Gitega

Gitega

Gitega is the second largest city of and since 2019 the national political capital, as well as the capital of the Gitega Province.
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  • Type: City with 155,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Burundi
  • Historically known as: “Kitega”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museum of Gitega and Christ the King Cathedral.

Museum
Photo: Dave Proffer, CC BY 2.0.
The is the national museum of . It is located in Gitega and was founded under Belgian colonial rule in 1955. The museum is the largest of Burundi's public museums although its collection is displayed in a single room.

Church
Photo: Tequendamia, Public domain.
The is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in Gitega in the in the central part of .

Aerodrome
is an airport serving the city of Gitega, the current capital of . The airport is situated on a low ridge in the northwest section of the city.

Gitega

Latitude
-3.4285° or 3° 25′ 43″ south
Longitude
29.925° or 29° 55′ 30″ east
Population
155,000
Elevation
1,684 metres (5,525 feet)
IATA airport code
GID
United Nations Location Code
BI GID
Open location code
6G8FHWCF+JX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 301351574
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
426272
Wiki­data ID
Q167551
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gitega” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gitega”
  • Arabic: “جيتيغا”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة بوروندي”
  • Arabic: “غيتغا”
  • Arabic: “غيتيغا”
  • Armenian: “Գիտեգա”
  • Asturian: “Gitega”
  • Asturian: “Kitega”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gitega”
  • Balinese: “Gitega”
  • Basque: “Gitega”
  • Belarusian: “Гітэга”
  • Belarusian: “Жытэга”
  • Bengali: “গিতেগা”
  • Bosnian: “Gitega”
  • Breton: “Gitega”
  • Bulgarian: “Гитега”
  • Catalan: “Gitega”
  • Catalan: “Kitega”
  • Cebuano: “Gitanga”
  • Cebuano: “Gitega”
  • Central Bikol: “Gitega”
  • Central Kanuri: “Gitega”
  • Chinese: “基特加”
  • Croatian: “Gitega”
  • Croatian: “Kitega”
  • Czech: “Gitega”
  • Czech: “Kitega”
  • Danish: “Gitega”
  • Dutch: “Gitega”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيتجا”
  • Esperanto: “Gitego”
  • Estonian: “Gitega”
  • Estonian: “Kitega”
  • Finnish: “Gitega”
  • Finnish: “Kitega”
  • French: “Gitega”
  • French: “Kitega”
  • Ga: “Gitega”
  • Ga: “Kitega”
  • Galician: “Gitega”
  • Georgian: “გიტეგა”
  • Georgian: “კიტეგა”
  • German: “Gitega”
  • German: “Kitega”
  • Greek: “Γκιτέγκα”
  • Gujarati: “ગિટેગા”
  • Hausa: “Gitega”
  • Hebrew: “גיטגה”
  • Hindi: “गीटेगा”
  • Hungarian: “Gitega”
  • Hungarian: “Kitega”
  • Icelandic: “Gitega”
  • Inari Sami: “Gitega”
  • Indonesian: “Gitega”
  • Interlingua: “Gitega”
  • Interlingue: “Gitega”
  • Irish: “Gitega”
  • Italian: “Gitega”
  • Japanese: “ギテガ”
  • Kannada: “ಗಿಟೆಗಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Гитега”
  • Korean: “가이테가”
  • Korean: “기테가”
  • Kotava: “Gitega”
  • Kurdish: “Gîtêga”
  • Latin: “Gitega”
  • Latin: “Kitega”
  • Latvian: “Gitega”
  • Ligurian: “Gitega”
  • Lithuanian: “Gitega”
  • Livvi: “Gitega”
  • Low German: “Gitega”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gitega”
  • Macedonian: “Гитега”
  • Malay: “Gitega”
  • Marathi: “गेटागा”
  • Mazanderani: “گیتگا”
  • Minangkabau: “Gitega”
  • Mingrelian: “გიტეგა”
  • Mingrelian: “კიტეგა”
  • Moksha: “Гитэга”
  • Mongolian: “Гитега”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڭيتيڭا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gitega”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gitega”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kitega”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gitega”
  • Norwegian: “Gitega”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gitega”
  • Ossetian: “Гитегæ”
  • Papiamento: “Gitega”
  • Persian: “گیتگا”
  • Polish: “Gitega”
  • Portuguese: “Gitega”
  • Portuguese: “Guitega”
  • Romanian: “Gitega”
  • Rundi: “Gitega”
  • Russian: “Гитега”
  • Russian: “Гитеге”
  • Sardinian: “Gitega”
  • Scots: “Gitega”
  • Serbian: “Гитега”
  • Sindhi: “گيٽيگا”
  • Sinhala: “ගිටෙගා”
  • Slovak: “Gitega”
  • Slovenian: “Gitega”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیتقا، بوروندی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیتقا”
  • Spanish: “Gitega”
  • Spanish: “Guitega”
  • Spanish: “Kitega”
  • Swahili: “Gitega”
  • Swedish: “Gitega”
  • Tamil: “கிடேகா”
  • Telugu: “జిటేగా”
  • Thai: “กีเตกา”
  • Tumbuka: “Gitega”
  • Turkish: “Gietaga”
  • Turkish: “Gitega”
  • Ukrainian: “Гітега”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґітеґа”
  • Urdu: “گیتیگا”
  • Venetian: “Zitega”
  • Veps: “Giteg”
  • Vietnamese: “Gitega”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gitega”
  • Welsh: “Gitega”
  • Wu Chinese: “基特加”
  • Yue Chinese: “基特加”
  • Zulu: “Gitega”
  • Zulu: “i-Gitega”

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