Butanyerera

Butanyerera is the second most populous of Burundi's five provinces. It covers an area of and recorded a population of 2,530,206 in the 2024 Burundian census. The capital and the largest town in the province is Ngozi, which reported a population of 39,884 in the 2008 Burundian census. Other significant towns in Butanyerera include Kayanza and Kirundo, which reported populations of 21,767 and 10,024 respectively in the 2008 Burundian census.

==Geography== thumb|All eight lakes in the Protected Aquatic Landscape of the North [[Ramsar site are visible in this satellite image taken in 2014. North is at the top of the image. The two largest lakes are the many-branched Lake Cohoha, and Lake Rweru at top right. Both these lakes lie on the border between Burundi and Rwanda. The next largest lakes are Lake Kanzigiri below and to the right (i.e., southeast) of Lake Rweru, and Lake Rwihinda below Lake Cohoha. Below and to the left (i.e., southwest) of Lake Cohoha are the smaller lakes Gacamirindi (green), Nagitamo and Narungazi. The northern tip of Lake Mwungere appears at the bottom left corner of the image.]] Located in northern Burundi, Butanyerera borders the Burundian provinces of Bujumbura, Gitega and Buhumuza to the west, south and east respectively, and Rwanda's Southern and Eastern provinces to the northwest and northeast respectively. Terrain in the province ranges in elevation from at Lake Rweru in the Bugesera Depression to the northeast, to over on the Congo-Nile ridge in Kibira National Park in the west. The central part of Butanyerera lies on the Buyenzi plateau, one of Burundi's major coffee-producing regions.