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Burundi (nation)
Coordinates:
Lat: 03 30 00 S degrees minutes Lat: -3.5000 decimal degrees
Long: 030 00 00 E degrees minutes Long: 30.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Region is chiefly agricultural; ruled by Tutsi kingdom under a number of kings from 16th century; German rule 1890s; after WW II was part of Belgian trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi; after independence from Belgium, several coups took place 1960s-1980s; official languages are Rundi and French, though Swahili is also spoken.
Names:
Burundi (preferred C ,V ,English-P ,U ,N )Burundi Rundi-P ,U ,N )Burundi Somali )Burundi Tagalog )Burundi Nauruan )Burundi Maltese )Burundi Vietnamese )Burundi Ilocano )Burundi Indonesian )Burundi Ganda (Ugandan language) )Burundi Azerbaijani )Burundi Bambara )Burundi Croatian )Burundi Bosnian )Burundi Latvian )Burundi Lingala )Burundi Magyar (Hungarian) )Burundi Danish )Burundi Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Burundi Finnish )Burundi Swedish )Burundi Polish )Burundi Portuguese )Burundi Romanian )Burundi Slovak )Burundi Slovene )Burundi Spanish-P ,U ,N )Burundi Catalan )Burundi Basque )Burundi Aragonese )Burundi Asturian )Burundi Akan )Burundi Welsh )Burundi Hausa )Burundi German-P ,U ,N )Burundi Low German )Burundi Albanian )Burundi Breton )Burundi Cornish )Burundi Czech )Burundi Dutch )Burundi Afrikaans )Burundi French-P ,U ,N )Burundi Galician )Burundi Faroese )Burundi Italian )Burundi Estonian )Burundi Greenlandic )Burundi Turkish )Burundi Occitan )Burundi Norwegian (Bokmål) )Burundi Romansh )Burundi Luba-Katanga )Burundi Malay (macrolanguage) )Burundi Norwegian )Burundi Pampanga )Burundi Northern Sami )Burundi Shona )Burundi Swahili (generic) )Burundi Arpitan )Burundi Ido )Burundi Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) )Republika y'Uburundi (C ,V ,O ,Rundi ,U )Republika y'u Burundi (C ,V ,Rundi ,U ,N )République du Burundi (C ,V ,O ,French ,U ,N )Republic of Burundi (C ,O ,English )República de Burundi (C ,O ,Spanish ,U )República de Burundi Galician )Boeroendi (C ,O ,Dutch-P ,U ,N )Boeroendi Limburgan )Бурунди (C ,V ,Tatar )Бурунди Tajik )Бурунди Chuvash )Бурунди Serbian )Бурунди Macedonian )Бурунди Mongolian )Бурунди Kazakh )Бурунди Bulgarian )Бурунди Russian-P ,U )Бурунди Ossetian/Ossetic )Бурунди Yakut )Республика Бурунди (C ,V ,Russian ,U )布隆迪 (C ,V ,Chinese, Wu )布隆迪 Chinese-P ,U )布隆迪共和国 (C ,V ,Chinese ,U )بوروهدي (C ,V ,Arabic-P ,U )جُهور ةً بوروهدي (C ,V ,Arabic ,U )BDI (C ,O ,ISO3L )BI (C ,O ,ISO2L )ISO108 (C ,O ,ISO3N )BY (C ,O ,FIPS )Burundian (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )בורונדי (C ,U ,Hebrew )An Bhurúin (C ,U ,Irish Gaelic )Bhurundi (C ,U ,North Ndebele )Boerûndy (C ,U ,Western Frisian )Borondi (C ,U ,Malagasy )Bouroundi (C ,U ,Haitian (Haitian Creole) )Burundaidh (C ,U ,Scots Gaelic )Burundee (C ,U ,Gaelic, indigenous Manx )Bùrúndì (C ,U ,Yoruba )Bu-run-đi (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Búrúndí (C ,U ,Icelandic )Burundî (C ,U ,Kurdish )Burůndi (C ,U ,Silesian )Burundia (C ,U ,Latin )Bu-run-đi (Burundi) (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Burundïi (C ,U ,Sangho )Burundi nutome (C ,U ,Ewe )Burundis (C ,U ,Lithuanian )Burundo (C ,U ,Esperanto )Burunndi (C ,U ,Fulah )Buruundi (C ,U ,Wolof )Bwrwndi (C ,U ,Welsh )IBurundi (C ,U ,Swati (Swazi) )i-Burundi (C ,U ,Zulu )Mburundi (C ,U ,Kikuyu )Orílẹ́ède Bùùrúndì (C ,U ,Yoruba )Pelaniti (C ,U ,Tonga (Tonga Islands) )Republika y’u Burundi (C ,U ,Rundi )Rundiyän (C ,U ,Volapük )Uburundi (C ,U ,Rundi )Uburundi Rwanda )Wóndii Dineʼé Bikéyah (C ,U ,Navajo )ބުރުންޑީ (C ,U ,Maldivian (Divehi) )برنڈی (C ,U ,Panjabi, Western )برنڈی Urdu )बुरूण्डी (C ,U ,Nepali )بۇرۇندى (C ,U ,Uyghur )بوروندی (C ,U ,Mazanderani )بوروندی Kurdish )بوروندی Persian-Farsi )বুরুন্ডি (C ,U ,Bengali )বুরুন্ডি Bishnupriya Manipuri )ບູລັນຕິ (C ,U ,Lao )بوروندى (C ,U ,Arabic, Egyptian )부룬디 (C ,U ,Korean )ประเทศบุรุนดี (C ,U ,Thai )ブルンジ (C ,U ,Japanese )บุรุนดี (C ,U ,Thai )Бурунді (C ,U ,Ukrainian )बुरुण्डी (C ,U ,Hindi )ብሩንዲ (C ,U ,Tigrinya )ብሩንዲ Amharic )बुरुंडी (C ,U ,Marathi )बुरुंडी Sanskrit )बुरुंडी Hindi )बुरुंडी Kashmiri )ബറുണ്ടി (C ,U ,Malayalam )Μπουρούντι (C ,U ,Greek )برونڈی (C ,U ,Urdu )ბურუნდი (C ,U ,Georgian )Бурундин Орн (C ,U ,Kalmyk )بوروندي (C ,U ,Arabic )Բուրունդի (C ,U ,Armenian )బురుండి (C ,U ,Telugu )蒲隆地 (C ,U ,Chinese )ಬುರುಂಡಿ (C ,U ,Kannada )ប៊ូរុនឌី (C ,U ,Khmer )بروندي (C ,U ,Pashto )बुरुन्डी (C ,U ,Newari )ቡሩንዲ (C ,U ,Amharic )புருண்டி (C ,U ,Tamil )બુરુંડી (C ,U ,Gujarati )ബുറുണ്ടി (C ,U ,Malayalam )ବୁରୁନ୍ଦି (C ,U ,Odia )বুরুণ্ডি (C ,U ,Bengali )བུ་རུན་ཌི། (C ,U ,Tibetan )بوراندی (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )Бурундзі (C ,U ,Belarusian )ブルンジ共和国 (C ,U ,Japanese )බුරුන්ඩි (C ,U ,Sinhala )बरंडी (C ,U ,Hindi )Urundi (H ,V )
Hierarchical Position:
Place Types:
nation (preferred C ) ............ gained independence 1962
primary political unit (C )
independent sovereign nation (C )
republic (C ) ............ declared 1966
kingdom (H ) ............ since Tutsi kings, 16th century
independent political entity (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Bujumbura .................. (World, Africa, Burundi, Bujumbura Mairie) [1088128]
member of .... United Nations ................ (World) [7029605] ................ joined organization in 1962
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