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        Bujumbura - capital of Burundi and provinces Bujumbura - is located on the northeast coast of island Tanganyika The population is...

BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI

   
    Bujumbura - capital of Burundi and provinces Bujumbura - is located on the northeast coast of island Tanganyika. The population is of 236000 inhabitants.
    David Livingstone and Morton Stanley Henry were the first Europeans who have found a settlement in 1871. On its place the major military camp of German possessions in the East Africa has been constructed. Since 1922 the city was an administrative centre of the territory Rwanda-Urundi being then under the mandate and in 1946-1962 – under protectorate of Belgium. In 1962 the city has replaced the name Usumbura with Bujumbura and has become the capital of an independent state of Burundi.
    The capital serves as an economic and shopping center of the region specialized on the production of cotton. Besides cotton, in the city they affect cement, beer, coffee, the equipment for catching fish. Easy, alimentary, pharmaceutical industries, fishery is advanced.
    In Bujumbura there is the University of Burundi.

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