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Burundi ( / b ə ˈ r ʊ n d ᵻ / or / b ə ˈ r ʌ n d i / ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( Kirundi : Republika y'Uburundi , [buˈɾundi] ; French : République du Burundi , [buʁundi] or [byʁyndi] ), is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa , bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. It is considered part of Central Africa . Burundi's capital is Bujumbura . The southwestern border is adjacent to Lake T
The Twa , Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least five hundred years. For more than 200 years, Burundi was an independent kingdom . At the beginning of the twentieth century, Germany colonized the region. After the First World War and Germany's defeat, it ceded the territory to Belgium . The Belgians ruled Burundi and Rwanda as a European colony known as Ruanda-Urundi . Their intervention exacerbated social differences between the Tutsi and Hutu, and contributed to political unrest in the