Butaho | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 3°14′7″S29°9′58″E / 3.23528°S 29.16611°E Coordinates: 3°14′7″S29°9′58″E / 3.23528°S 29.16611°E | |
Country | |
Province | North Kivu |
Time zone | CAT (UTC+2) |
Butaho is a town in North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located near the border with Burundi along National Highway 5.
North Kivu is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its capital is Goma.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DR Congo, the DRC, DROC, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa. It is sometimes anachronistically referred to by its former name of Zaire, which was its official name between 1971 and 1997. It is, by area, the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa, and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of over 78 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populated officially Francophone country, the fourth-most-populated country in Africa, and the 16th-most-populated country in the world.
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country amid the African Great Lakes region where East and Central Africa converge. The capital is Gitega, having moved from Bujumbura in February 2019. The southwestern border is adjacent to Lake Tanganyika.
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