Makamba Province is the southernmost

province A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

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 peop ...

. The province has a population of 430,899 (2008 census) and covers an area of 1,960 km. The provincial capital is Makamba. Makamba has six communes, many

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have returned from

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to this province, especially to the communes of Kayogoro,

Nyanza lac Nyanza Lac is a city in southern Burundi, in Makamba Province. The city is located on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, to the south of Mutambara and close to the border with Tanzania Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a ...

, Mabanda and Vugizo. This causes a big problem, because there is not enough land for everybody. It is the most fertile province of Burundi.

Location

Makamba Province is the southernmost province 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 Tanzania to the south and east.

Bururi Province Bururi Province is one of the eighteen provinces of Burundi, provinces of Burundi. It was formerly Burundi's largest province until the communes of Commune of Burambi, Burambi, Commune of Buyengero, Buyengero and Commune of Rumonge, Rumonge were t ...

and

Rutana Province Rutana Province is one of the 18 provinces of Burundi. It contains the Kagera waterfalls, and the Nyakazu Fault. Location Rutana Province is in the southeast of Burundi and borders Tanzania to the east. Makamba Province is to the south, Bururi P ...

are to the north. The central part of Makamba Province is in the Buragane natural region. In the west, some areas are in the

Imbo natural region The Natural regions of Burundi () are geographical subdivisions of Burundi that date to colonial times. They can be broadly grouped into the Plain zone in the west beside Lake Tanganyika and the East African Rift valley, the Congo-Nile ridge, the ...

or the

Mumirwa natural region The Mumirwa region () is a natural region of Burundi. Background The Congo-Nile ridge is an immense steep slope with very rugged relief that forms the divide between the Nile and the Congo River. Mumirwa natural region covers the western foothi ...

. The east of the province is in the Kumoso natural region.

Communes

It is divided administratively into the following communes: * Commune of Kayogoro * Commune of Kibago * Commune of Mabanda * Commune of Makamba * Commune of Nyanza-Lac * Commune of Vugizo

References

Sources

* Provinces of Burundi {{Burundi-geo-stub