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Location: Africa
Capital: Bujumbura ( 300.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Kitega
Population: 6,695,000
Area: 27,834 km2
Coin: 1 Burundi franc = 100 centimes
Languages: French, Kirundi
Religions: Roman Catholic, Protestant
The Independence's Year: 1962
Rivers: Ruvubu
Lakes: Tanganica |
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Small nation of oriental (great few more than Sicily) Africa, posts between Congo and Tanzania.
It's devastated by a long and bloody ethnic civil war among the Tutsis and the Hutus, that has produced terrible due famines to the progressive abandonment of the earths cultivated and bad hygienic-sanitary conditions, also because of the death of about ten people a day. It produces coffee, the and cotton, nevertheless it is one of the poorest countries of the world and the situation you/he/she has dramatically increased from the wars, that have determined great flows of fugitive toward Tanzania, Uganda e Rwanda.
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