Gitega
Gitega, formerly Kitega, is the political capital of Burundi.
Gitega, formerly Kitega, is the political capital of Burundi. Located in the centre of the country, in the Burundian central plateau roughly 62 kilometres (39 mi) east of Bujumbura, the largest city and former political capital, Gitega is the country's fourth largest city and former royal capital of the Kingdom of Burundi until its abolition in 1966. In December 2018, former President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza announced that he would follow on a 2007 promise to return Gitega its former political capital status, with Bujumbura remaining as economic capital and centre of commerce. A vote in the Parliament of Burundi made the change official on 16 January 2019, with all branches of government expected to move in over three years.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Gitega
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01National Museum of Gitega
The National Museum of Gitega is the national museum of Burundi. It is located in Gitega and was founded under Belgian colonial rule in 1955.
2.2 km · Museum in Gitega · Wikipedia - 02Christ the King Cathedral
The Christ the King Cathedral is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in Gitega in the province of Gitega in the central part of Burundi. Follow the Latin or Roman rite and functions as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gitega that was created on November 10, 1959 by the Bull "Cum parvulum" by the Pope John XXIII as part of the ecclesiastical province of Gitega.
1.6 km · church in Gitega, Burundi · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Gitega
- Airports
- Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye (BJM), 68 km · Kigali (KGL), 164 km · Goma (GOM), 210 km
- Stations
- Gitega Airport, 1.1 km
- Bujumbura → Gitega63 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · $8–11
- Kigali → Gitega165 km · quickest by road, 4h 36m · RF10,500–14,000
- Goma → Gitega210 km · quickest by road, 6h 4m · $30–41
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Gitega
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gitega. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTo do this, take a bus to Kabanga, Tanzania, and from there take a shared taxi to the Burundian border.
- Get inYou can also take a bus to Bujumburu from the border via Mabanda after taking a boda-boda through the border post.
- Get inShared taxis are available to the border from Kigoma.
- Get inMinibuses also run from Gatumba on the DRC border to Bujumbura.
- Get inYou can use the ferries to travel along Lake Tanganyika, but they do not operate regularly.
From Wikivoyage: Burundi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 01265 km
- 02421 km
- 03478 km
- 041,070 km
- 051,075 km
If you know how people move in Gitega – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.