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CapitalGitega
Population12.3M
CurrencyBurundian franc (Fr)
LanguagesFrench, Kirundi
TimezoneUTC+02:00
Area27,834 km²
ContinentAfrica
Driving SideRight
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Overview

Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is located in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa, with a population of over 14 million people. It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border.

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Burundi is a small country in East Africa, although it has some cultural and geographical ties with Central Africa. It is surrounded by Rwanda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Although the country is rich in culture and history, the country has been in a state of instability since gaining independence in the 1960s. Burundi is one of the world's poorest and least developed countries and has a myriad of social, political, and economic problems.

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Katavi National Park
Park

Katavi National Park

Katavi National Park is a Tanzanian national park created in 1974 and is located in Katavi Region, Tanzania. It is a very remote park that is less frequently visited than other Tanzanian national parks.

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Mount Mikeno
Mountain peaks

Mount Mikeno

Mount Mikeno is an extinct volcanic mountain located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo section of the Virunga Mountains along with Mount Nyiragongo, Mount Nyamuragira, Mount Karisimbi, Mount Bisoke and Mount Sabyinyo.

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Nyiragongo
Mountain peaks

Nyiragongo

Mount Nyiragongo ( neer-ə-GONG-go) is an active stratovolcano with an elevation of 3,470 m (11,385 ft) in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift.

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Nyungwe Forest National Park
Urban

Nyungwe Forest National Park

The Nyungwe Forest () is located in southwestern Rwanda, on the border with Burundi, where it is contiguous with the Kibira National Park to the south, and Lake Kivu and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

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Inzu ndangamurage y'Umwami
Museum

Inzu ndangamurage y'Umwami

Murambi genocide memorial
Historic

Murambi genocide memorial

The Murambi Technical School, now known as the Murambi Genocide Memorial Centre, is situated near the town of Murambi in southern Rwanda.This memorial center is one of six major centres in Rwanda that commemorate the Rwandan genocide.

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Rwenzori - altotropical grassland
Other

Rwenzori - altotropical grassland

The Ruwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands is a montane grasslands and shrublands ecoregion of central Africa.The ecoregion lies above 3000 meters elevation, and is divided into two areas: the Rwenzori Mountains on the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the volcanic Virunga…

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Mount Baker
Mountain peaks

Mount Baker

Mount Baker or Kiyanja is a mountain in the Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda, 2.8 kilometres (1.7 mi) from the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With a height of 4,844 metres (15,892 ft), it is the sixth highest mountain in Africa.

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Ethnographic Museum
Cultural

Ethnographic Museum

The Ethnographic Museum (Kinyarwanda: Inzu ndangamurage), formerly the National Museum of Rwanda (French: Musée national du Rwanda, Kinyarwanda: Ingoro y'Umurage w'u Rwanda), is a national museum in Rwanda. It is located in Butare.

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Rusizi National Park
Park

Rusizi National Park

Rusizi Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Burundi, next to the Rusizi River. It is 15 km north of the city of Bujumbura and home to hippopotamuses and sitatungas. Gustave, a Nile crocodile rumored to have killed 300 people lives here.BirdLife International (2020).

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Gombe Stream National Park
Urban

Gombe Stream National Park

Gombe National Park, also known as Gombe Stream National Park, is located in western Kigoma Region, Tanzania, 10 miles (16 km) north of Kigoma, the capital of Kigoma Region.

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Alexandra Peak (Mount Stanley)
Mountain peaks

Alexandra Peak (Mount Stanley)

Mount Stanley or Mount Ngaliema (, also US: , UK: ) is a mountain located in the Rwenzori Mountains. With an elevation of 5,109 m (16,763 ft), it is the highest mountain of both the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, and the third highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro (5,895 m) and Mount Ke…

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