Burundi

Facts

What the numbers say about Burundi

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 628× the size of Burundi.
• Burundi ranks 77th of 237 by population but only 145th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 506 people per km², Burundi is the 10th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Burundi lies at 3°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Burundi's main territory stretches about 240 km north to south and 205 km east to west.
• Our measured 27,000 km² is 2.8% below Wikidata's official figure of 27,800 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Burundi measures up

Burundi holds 0.1% of the land area and 1.0% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Eastern Africa it is the 14th largest of 17.

Where Burundi sits

• Burundi's centre lies at 3.4°S, 29.9°E, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, about 370 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 4°S to 2°S, about 240 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Burundi had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Burundi would have 33.9 million people. It has 13.7 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Burundi would have 101,000 people. It has 13.7 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 2.0 million.

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