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Burundi

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Noun

1. burundi, republic of burundi

a landlocked republic in east central Africa on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika

Adjective

2. burundi, burundian

of or relating to or characteristic of Burundi or its people

Example Sentences:
'the Burundi capital'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Burundi

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noun
a republic in E central Africa: inhabited chiefly by the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa (Pygmy); made part of German East Africa in 1899; part of the Belgian territory of Ruanda-Urundi from 1923 until it became independent in 1962; ethnic violence has erupted at times between Hutu and Tutsi, as in Rwanda; consists mainly of high plateaus along the main Nile-Congo dividing range, dropping rapidly to the Great Rift Valley in the west. Official languages: Kirundi and French; Swahili is used commercially. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: Burundi franc. Capital: Bujumbura. Pop: 10 864 245 (2017 est). Area: 27 731 sq km (10 707 sq miles)
. Former name (until 1962): Urundi

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Burundi

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country in EC Africa, east of Democratic Republic of the Congo: 10,759 sq mi (27,866 sq km); pop. 5,293,000; cap. Bujumbura
see also Ruanda-Urundi

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Burundi

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A country of east-central Africa with a coastline on Lake Tanganyika. It was inhabited originally by the Twa, a Pygmy people, and later also by Hutus and Tutsis, the latter gaining political and economic dominance in the 19th century. The area formed part of German East Africa and later of Belgian-ruled Ruanda-Urundi before it became an independent kingdom in 1962 and was declared a republic in 1966. In the 1970s and again in the 1990s tens of thousands of people were killed in ethnic clashes between Hutus and Tutsis. Bujumbura is the capital and the largest city.

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