Population: 6,223,897
Languages: Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)
Background: Between 1993 and 2000, wide-spread, often intense ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Burundi created hundreds of thousands of refugees and left tens of thousands dead. Although some refugees have returned from neighboring countries...
Currency: Burundi franc (BIF, No information)
Data from CIA World Factbook. Click on CIA link for more. Click on map or flag for larger images.
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Related Links
· CIA World Factbook: Burundi
· Ethnologue: Languages of Burundi
· BBC Country profile: Burundi