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    Burundi covers 27,834 km² with an estimated population of almost 8.7 million. Although the country is landlocked, much of the south-western border is adjacent to Lake Tanganyika, one of the deepest lakes in the world.

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    Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

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    Once known as Urundi, the Kingdom of Burundi rose on the eastern foothills in the late seventeenth century.

    Burundi spreads 27,834 km² with an expected populace of right around 8.7 million. In spite of the fact that the nation is landlocked, a significant part of the south-western outskirt is contiguous Lake Tanganyika, one of the most profound lakes on the planet. Burundi was once some portion of German East Africa. Belgium won a League of Nations command in 1923, and hence Burundi, with Rwanda, was exchanged to the status of a United Nations trust region. In 1962, Burundi picked up freedom and turned into a kingdom under Mwami Mwambutsa IV, a Tutsi. A Hutu disobedience occurred in 1965, prompting merciless Tutsi reprisals.

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