Gitega is the second largest city in Burundi

Burundi

Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...

, lying east of Bujumbura

Bujumbura

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. It is the capital of Gitega Province

Gitega Province

Gitega is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. Its capital is Gitega. It has a population of about 675,000 and an area of 1,979 km²....

, one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. It is the home of the Burundi National Museum

Burundi National Museum

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 and the Archdiocese of Gitega

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gitega

The Archdiocese of Gitega the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Gitega in Burundi.-History:* 1912.12.12: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu from Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Victoria Nyanza in Tanzania...

. Several karyenda

Karyenda

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royal drum sanctuaries

Sanctuary

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 are located in the area, as well as the ibwami (royal court

Royal court

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).

Capital city

In March 2007, President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza

Pierre Nkurunziza

Pierre Nkurunziza is a Burundian politician who has been President of Burundi since 2005. He is the Chairman of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy , the ruling party in Burundi, and also the current Chairman of the East African...

announced that Burundi is planning to bring back its capital city to Gitega, saying that it is in a better location for a capital than Bujumbura.