Urundi

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Urundi is a landscape and a historical kingdom on the northeast coast of Lake Tanganyika and corresponds to today's state of Burundi .

It reaches up to close to the 2nd degree of southern latitude and is intersected by the 30th degree of eastern longitude , traversed by the Ruzizi River , which falls into the Tanganyika, and bordered in the northeast by Lake Akanjaru (Alexandra).

Stanley estimated Urundi's population to be three million in the second half of the 19th century. Today's Burundi has about 9 million Hutu and Tutsi residents .

During the German colonial era , Urundi first belonged to the Usumbura military district and from 1906 it became the Urundi residency . During the Belgian colonial period, Urundi was part of Rwanda-Urundi . Its northern part formed the Kingdom of Rwanda after independence , while Urundi in the south became the Kingdom of Burundi .

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