Map of Burundi

Burundi is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 3.5° S, 30.0° E. Burundi is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 3 neighbours — DR Congo, Rwanda and Tanzania — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Burundi is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Burundi is surrounded by the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Burundi covers about 27,834 km² (10,747 sq mi). That makes it the 143rd-largest country in the world by area and the 45th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 9 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 12,332,788, the 79th-largest in the world and the 31st-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.8% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Burundi has an average population density of about 443 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 31st by population and 45th by area.

The seat of government is Gitega, and the official currency is the Burundian franc (BIF, Fr), and the main official languages are French and Kirundi. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Burundi carries the ISO country codes BI and BDI, dials on the international calling code +257 and uses the .bi internet domain.

Burundi shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are DR Congo (capital Kinshasa, about 112,832,000 people), Tanzania (capital Dodoma, about 68,153,004 people) and Rwanda (capital Kigali, about 14,104,969 people).

By area, Burundi is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 3.5° S, 30.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Burundi within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Gitega. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Burundi lies about 388 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Burundi keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Burundian franc (BIF, Fr).

The official languages are French and Kirundi, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +257 and websites commonly use the .bi internet domain.

In short, Burundi is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Gitega. Burundi has a population of about 12,332,788 and covers around 27,834 km² (10,747 sq mi), ranking it 79th in the world by population and 143rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Burundi.

The flag of Burundi is divided by a white diagonal cross into four alternating triangular areas of red at the top and bottom, and green on the hoist and fly sides. A white circle, with three green-edged red six-pointed stars arranged to form a triangle, is superimposed at the center of the cross.

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