Burundi
Burundi (officially Republic of Burundi) is a country in Eastern Africa, with its capital at Gitega, and is home to roughly 14.0M people.
Its official languages are French, Kirundi; the currency in circulation is Burundian franc (Fr); people from here are called Burundian.
- »Burundi is one of the few countries where the source of the Nile is claimed; a spring here feeds the Kagera, the river's most distant headstream.
Burundi touches three neighbours: DR Congo to the west, Rwanda to the north and Tanzania to the southeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Gitega replaced Bujumbura as political capital in 2019, restoring the seat of the old Burundian kingdom.
27,311 km² (10,545 sq mi), 142nd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Haiti.
Population 14,047,786, 78th of 198 on file. That averages 514 per km² (1,332 per sq mi).
The three stars stand for the national motto, unity, work and progress, and for the three main ethnic groups. Red is the struggle for independence, green hope, white peace.