Bujumbura Mairie Province | |
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Country | Burundi |
Province | Bujumbura Mairie |
Commune | |
Capital | Bujumbura |
Government | |
• Mayor | Jimmy Hatungimana (CNDD-FDD) |
Area | |
• Total | 127 km2 (49 sq mi) |
Population (2021 census) | |
• Total | 1,225,142 |
• Density | 9,600/km2 (25,000/sq mi) |
Bujumbura Mairie Province is one of the eighteen provinces of Burundi. It consists entirely of the city of Bujumbura, Burundi's economic capital.
Bujumbura Mairie Province is in the west of Burundi. It borders Lake Tanganyika to the west and is surrounded by Bujumbura Rural Province to the north, east and south. It is in the Imbo natural region apart from a small section of the east in the Mumirwa natural region. [1]
It was created by splitting Bujumbura Province into Bujumbura Mairie Province and Bujumbura Rural Province.
The city of Bujumbura is divided into three communes (as of 2014), [2] which are sub-divided into 13 neighborhoods (per Ministerial Order No. 530/1279 of 22 September 2005), [3] which are further sub-divided into quarters
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