One of the sources of the Nile rises here, and drumming at Gishora is inscribed on UNESCO's heritage list.
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Burundi
Republic of Burundi
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
27.83Kkmยฒ of land
$261GDP / person
BujumburaCapital
- ISO codes
- BI ยท BDI
- Density
- 414 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French, Kirundi
- Currency
- Burundian franc (BIF)
- Dial code
- +257
- Internet domain
- .bi
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 3.3330ยฐ S, 29.9170ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Burundian
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $3.01B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Burundi stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
78th
of 242 ยท 0.15% of world population
Land area
146th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world land
GDP per person
237th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
29th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Burundi
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 11,530,580 people, the 78th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.15 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 27,834 kmยฒ, making it the 146th largest country here - about 10.8 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 414 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Bujumbura, at 3.38ยฐ S, 29.36ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 331,700.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Dem. Rep. Congo, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Bujumbura.
The currency is the Burundian franc (BIF, symbol Fr).
Has 2 official languages: French and Kirundi.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Bujumbura
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UTC+02:00
Cities
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Bujumbura
Bujumbura Mairie
3.3761ยฐ S, 29.3600ยฐ E
331.7K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Burundi.