Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

Burundi is located in central Africa, to the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the co-ordinates.

Burundi occupies an area equal to in size, of which is land.

The terrain of Burundi is hilly and mountainous, dropping to a plateau in the east.

Burundi has of land that is irrigated.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Burundi, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Politics of Burundi takes place in a framework of a transitional presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Burundi is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.

Burundi is a landlocked, resource-poor country with an underdeveloped manufacturing sector.

Although Burundi is potentially self-sufficient in food production, the ongoing civil war, overpopulation, and soil erosion have contributed to the contraction of the subsistence economy by 25 % in recent years.

Burundi is a net food importer, with food accounting for 17 % of imports in 1997.

The main cash crop of Burundi is coffee, which accounted for 78. 5 % of exports in 1997.

Burundi is heavily dependent on bilateral and multilateral aid, with external debt totalling $ 1. 247 billion ( 1. 247 G $) in 1997.

The increase in IPv4 address space allocated to Burundi is sign of greater internet use

Régie Nationale des Postes is the company responsible for postal service in Burundi.

A great hindrance to Burundi ’ s economic development is lack of adequate transportation.

The country is landlocked, and there are currently no railways in Burundi.

Air service is maintained by Air Burundi, which operates domestic service and flies to Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The National Defence Force is the state military organisation responsible for the defence of Burundi.

Burundi is a member of various international and regional organizations, including the United Nations, the African Union, the African Development Bank and the Francophonie.

Burundi is also a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the US-military ( as covered under Article 98 ).

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

Burundi possesses eight airports, of which one has paved runways, whose length exceeds 3, 047m.

Burundi is one of the few countries in Africa, along with its closely linked neighbour Rwanda among others, to be a direct territorial continuation of a pre-colonial era African state.

They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where they form one of the principal population divisions alongside the Tutsi and the Twa.

When former German East Africa was divided into three mandated territories ( Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanganyika ) Smutsland was one of the proposed names for what became Tanganyika.

For the next twelve years he directed the UN refugee agency through one of its most difficult periods, coordinating the international response to the 1971 Bangladesh crisis that uprooted people, the 1972 exodus of hundreds of thousands of Hutus from Burundi to Tanzania, and the Indochinese boat people tragedy of the mid-1970s.

* Burundi – December 30, 2000 – A British voluntary worker is one of 20 people killed by gunmen.

Bubanza is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Bujumbura Rural is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Bururi is one of the seventeen provinces of Burundi.

Cibitoke is one of the 17 provinces of Republic of Burundi.

It is the capital of Gitega Province, one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Karuzi is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Kayanza is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Muramvya is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Muyinga is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Mwaro is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Ngozi is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

It is the capital of Rutana Province, one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Ruyigi is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

This was one of the barriers for enrollment and thus, countries like Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda have eliminated school fees.

Between 1957 and 1960, Koprowski's vaccine was administered to roughly one million people in the Belgian territories, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.

Black has argued that the leaders of NATO should themselves be brought before the tribunal for war crimes, and was one of a group of Canadian lawyers, led by Professor Michael Mandel of Osgoode Hall Law School, who laid war crimes charges against all Nato leaders and officers in 1999 for the bombing of Yugoslavia and criticised Louise Arbour, former prosecutor of the ICTY and ICTR because of her cooperation with NATO leaders during the 1999 bombing of Serbia and because, as Chief Prosecutor at the Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal she stopped the investigation into the murder of the Hutu Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi on April 6, 1994 when their plane was shot down by anti-aircraft missiles after she learned that the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ) were responsible, a fact confirmed by both her lead investigator, Australian lawyer Michael Hourigan and as contained in the Hourigan Report, a UN document, now an exhibit in the Miitary II trial, ICTR.

Gitega is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.

Rutana is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi.