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.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »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.
> BORDERS_
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.
> THE CAPITAL_
Gitega replaced Bujumbura as political capital in 2019, restoring the seat of the old Burundian kingdom.
> SCALE_
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 FLAG_
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.