'''Gitega''' (antigamente '''Kitega''') é a [[capital]] e unha das [[Cidade|cidades]] máis grandes de [[Burundi|Burundi.]]<ref>{{Cita web|url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-are-the-biggest-cities-in-burundi.html|páxina-web=www.worldatlas.com|título=Biggest Cities In Burundi|data-acceso=25 de xuño de 2019|lingua=en}}</ref> ▼
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▲'''Gitega''' (antigamente '''Kitega''') é a [[capital]] e unha das [[Cidade|cidades]] máis grandes de [[Burundi|Burundi.]]<ref>{{Cita web|url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-are-the-biggest-cities-in-burundi.html}}</ref>
Está localizada no centro do país a aproximadamente 62 quilómetros ao sueste de [[Bujumbura]] (a anterior capital e cidade máis grande). Gitega foi a capital do [[Reino de Burundi]] até a súa abolición en [[1966]].<ref name="britannica">{{Cita web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Gitega}}</ref><ref name="gitegaafp">{{Cita web|url=https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/ea/Burundi-names-Gitega-as-new-capital/4552908-4906718-ckc120/index.html}}</ref><ref group="Nota">De 1922 en diante, Usumbura (agora Bujumbura) funcionou como segunda capital colonial, administrativa e económica do país. Converteuse na única capital política entre a abolición da monarquía en 1966 e xaneiro de 2019.</ref> A finais de decembro de [[2018]], o presidente de Burundi [[Pierre Nkurunziza]] anunciou que cumpriría a promesa que fixera en 2007 de devolverlle a Gitega o seu antigo status político, quedando Bujumbura como capital económica e centro de comercio.<ref name="gitegaafp"></ref><ref>{{Cita web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-24/burundi-moves-political-capital-from-bujumbura-to-gitega}}</ref> Cunha votación no Parlamento de Burundi fíxose oficial o cambio o 16 de xaneiro de [[2019]], esperándose que todas as ramas do goberno se trasladen en tres anos.<ref name="bbcnews">{{Cita web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/ce1qrvlel07t/burundi}}</ref>
