Divided by a white diagonal cross into red panels (top and bottom) and green panels (hoist side and outer side) with a white disk superimposed at the center bearing three red six-pointed stars outlined in green arranged in a triangular design (one star above, two stars below).
8,390,505 (July 2007 est.) Estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS, this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected.
Languages:
Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)
Geographic coordinates:
3° 30' S, 30° 00' E
Area total:
27,830 sq. km
Land area:
25,650 sq. km
Water area:
2,180 sq. km
Total land boundaries:
974 km
Borders with neighbor countries:
Democratic Republic of the Congo 233 km, Rwanda 290 km, Tanzania 451 km
Coastline:
0 km (landlocked)
Elevation extremes:
Lake Tanganyika 772 m - Mount Heha 2,670 m
Internet country code:
.bi
Currency:
Burundi franc (BIF)
Name - conventional long form:
Republic of Burundi
Name - conventional short form:
Burundi
Name - local long form:
Republika y'u Burundi
Name - local short form:
Burundi
Former name:
Urundi
Independence:
1 July 1962 (from UN trusteeship under Belgian administration)
Constitution:
13 March 1992, provided for establishment of a plural political system, supplanted on 6 June 1998 by a Transitional Constitution which enlarged the National Assembly and created two vice presidents