Bujumbura is the capital,
largest city, and main port of Burundi. It ships most of the country's chief
export, coffee, as well as cotton and tin ore. It is on the north-eastern shore
of Lake Tanganyika, the second deepest lake in the world after Lake Baikal. The
city center is a colonial town with a large market, the national stadium, a
large mosque, and the cathedral for the Archdiocese of Bujumbura. Museums in
the city include the Burundi Museum of Life and the Burundi Geological Museum.
Other nearby attractions include the Rusizi National Park, the
Livingstone-Stanley Monument at Mugere (where David Livingstone and Henry
Morton Stanley visited 14 days after their first historic meeting at Ujiji in
Tanzania), the presidential palace and the source of the southernmost tributary
of the Nile, described locally as the source of the Nile. Ferries sail from
Bujumbura to Kigoma in Tanzania. The city is home to the Bujumbura
International Airport and the University of Burundi. Population of the city as
per 2008 is 497,166.
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