Burundi

Coordinates: 3°30′S 30°00′E / 3.500°S 30.000°E / -3.500; 30.000

Republic o Burundi Republika y'Uburundi  (Kirundi) République du Burundi  (French)
Banner Coat o airms
Motto:  "Ubumwe, Ibikorwa, Amajambere" (Kirundi) "Unité, Travail, Progrès" (French)
Anthem: Burundi Bwacu  (Kirundi) Our Burundi
Location o  Burundi  (dark blue) – in Africae  (light blue & dark grey) – in the African Union  (light blue)
Caipital and largest city	Bujumbura 3°30′S 30°00′E / 3.500°S 30.000°E / -3.500; 30.000
Offeecial leids	French Kirundi
Ethnic groups	85% Hutu 14% Tutsi   1% Twa ~3,000 Europeans ~2,000 Sooth Asies
Demonym(s)	Burundian
Govrenment	Presidential republic
• President	Évariste Ndayishimiye[1]
• 1st Vice-Preses	Prosper Bazombanza
• 2nt Vice-Preses	Joseph Butore
Legislatur	Pairlament
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	Naitional Assemmly
Status
• Pairt o Ruanda-Urundi (UN trust territory)	1945–1962
• Unthirldom frae Belgium	1 Julie 1962
• Republic	1 Julie 1966
• Constitution o Burundi	28 Februar 2005
Aurie
• Total	27,834 km2 (10,747 sq mi)[2] (142nt)
• Water (%)	10[3]
Population
• 2016 estimate	10,524,117[4] (86t)
• 2008 census	8,053,574[2]
• Density	401.6/km2 (1,040.1/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2017 estimate
• Total	$7.985 billion[5]
• Per capita	$808[5]
GDP (nominal)	2017 estimate
• Tot	$3.393 billion[5]
• Per capita	$343[5]
Gini (2006)	33[6] medium
HDI (2015)	0.404[7] law · 184th
Currency	Burundian franc (FBu) (BIF)
Time zone	UTC+2 (CAT)
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Drivin side	right
Cawin code	+257
ISO 3166 code	BI
Internet TLD	.bi

Burundi (pronounced [buˈɾundi]), offeecially the Republic o Burundi, is a landlocked kintra in the Great Lochs region o Eastren Africae mairchin wi Rwanda tae the north, Tanzanie tae the east an sooth, an the Democratic Republic o the Congo tae the wast. Its size is juist unner 28,000 km² wi an estimatit population bein amaist 8,700,000. Its caipital is Bujumbura. Awtho the kintra is landlocked, a muckle o the soothwastren border is nixt tae Loch Tanganyika.

The Twa, Tutsi, an Hutu fowks bed in Burundi fae whan the kintra's formation five yearhunner ago. Burundi wis ruled like a kinrick bi the Tutsi fur ower twa hunner years. Housomivver, at the stairt o the 20t yearhunner, Germany an Belgium teuk ower the region, an Burundi an Rwanda turnt intae a European colony kent as Ruanda-Urundi.

Poleetical unrest happent oothrou the region acause o social differences atween the Tutsi an Hutu, garrin a civil war in Burundi oothrou the mids o the 20t yearhunner. The nou, Burundi is governed as a presidential representative democratic republic. 62% o Burundians are Roman Catholic, 8-10% percent are Muslims an the lave follae indigenous beliefs an ither Christian denominations.

Burundi is ane o the ten poorest kintras in the warld. Burundi haes a law gross domestic product lairgely acause o ceevil wars, corruption, puir access tae education, an the effects o HIV/AIDS. Burundi is densely populatit, wi substantial emigration. Cobalt an copper are amang Burundi's naitural resources.

1. ↑ Burundi arrests leaders of attempted coup. CNN.com (15 Mey 2015). Retrieved on 29 Juin 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b} "Quelques données pour le Burundi" (in French). ISTEEBU. Archived frae the original on 28 Julie 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
3. ↑ Annuaire statistique du Burundi (PDF) (Report) (in French). ISTEEBU. Julie 2015. p. 105. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 16 Apryle 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
4. ↑ "World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision". ESA.UN.org (custom data acquired via website). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} "Burundi". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 13 Januar 2015.
6. ↑ "Gini Index, World Bank Estimate". World Development Indicators. The World Bank. Retrieved 13 Januar 2015.
7. ↑ "2016 Human Development Report" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2016. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2017.