Bujumbura Province

	Bujumbura Province Bujumbura Province is a former province of Burundi. It is now split into the Bujumbura Mairie Province (which contains the country's former capital Bujumbura) and the Bujumbura Rural Province Bujumbura Rural Province is one of the eighteen provinces of Burundi. Former President Cyprien Ntaryamira was born here. It surrounds the former national capital Bujumbura and its provincial capital is Isale (commune), Isale. Location Bujumbura .... Former provinces of Burundi {{burundi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Burundi 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. The political capital city is Gitega and the economic capital city is Bujumbura. The Great Lakes Twa, Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent Kingdom of Burundi, kingdom. In 1885, it became part of the German colony of German East Africa. After the First World War and German Revolution of 1918–19, Germany's defeat, the League of Nations mandated the territories of Burundi and neighboring Rwanda to Belgium in a combined territory called Rwanda-Urundi. After the Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bujumbura Mairie Province Bujumbura Mairie Province is one of the eighteen provinces of Burundi. It consists entirely of the city of Bujumbura, Burundi's economic capital. Location Bujumbura Mairie Province is in the west of Burundi. It borders Lake Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika ( ; ) is an African Great Lakes, African Great Lake. It is the world's List of lakes by volume, second-largest freshwater lake by volume and the List of lakes by depth, second deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. ... to the west and is surrounded by Bujumbura Rural Province to the north, east and south. It is in the Imbo natural region apart from a small section of the east in the Mumirwa natural region. History It was created by splitting Bujumbura Province into Bujumbura Mairie Province and Bujumbura Rural Province. Administrative subdivisions The city of Bujumbura is divided into three communes (as of 2014), which are sub-divided into 13 neighborhoods (per Ministerial Order No. 530/1279 of 22 September 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Bujumbura Bujumbura (; ), formerly Usumbura, is the economic capital, largest city and main port of Burundi. It ships most of the country's chief export, coffee, as well as cotton and tin ore. Bujumbura was formerly the country's political capital. In late December 2018, Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza announced that he would follow through on a 2007 promise to return Gitega its former political capital status, with Bujumbura remaining as economical capital and center of commerce. A vote in the Parliament of Burundi made the change official on 16 January 2019, with all branches of government expected to move to Gitega within three years. History Bujumbura grew from a small village after it became a military post in German East Africa in 1889. After World War I it was made the administrative center of the Belgium, Belgian League of Nations mandate of Ruanda-Urundi. The name was changed from Usumbura to Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in 1962. Since independence, Bujumbura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bujumbura Rural Province Bujumbura Rural Province is one of the eighteen provinces of Burundi. Former President Cyprien Ntaryamira was born here. It surrounds the former national capital Bujumbura and its provincial capital is Isale (commune), Isale. Location Bujumbura Rural Province is in the east of Burundi, to the east and north of Lake Tanganyika. In the northeast it borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To the north it borders Bubanza Province, to east it borders Muramvya Province and Mwaro Province, and to the south it borders Bururi Province. It encloses Bujumbura Mairie Province around the northwest corner of Lake Tanganyika. In the west it is in the Imbo natural region. The center is in the Mumirwa natural region and the east in the Mugamba natural region. Communes Bujumbura Rural Province administers nine communes: * Commune of Isale * Commune of Kabezi * Commune of Kanyosha * Commune of Mubimbi * Mugongo-Manga, Commune of Mugongomanga * Commune of Mukike * Commune of Mutambu * Commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]