Ruanda-Urundi

Territory of Ruanda-Urundi Territoire du Ruanda-Urundi (French) Gebied Ruanda-Urundi (Dutch) Gebiet von Ruanda-Urundi (German)
1916–1962
Flag Coat of arms
Ruanda-Urundi (dark green) depicted within the Belgian colonial empire (light green), c. 1935
Status	Mandate of Belgium
Capital	Usumbura
Common languages	French (official) also: Dutch, German (until 1962) Kinyarwanda, Kirundi and Swahili
Religion	Catholicism (de facto) also: Protestantism, Islam and others
History
• Belgian invasion	6 May 1916
• Mandate created	20 July 1922
• Administrative merger with Belgian Congo	1 March 1926
• Mandate becomes Trust Territory	13 December 1946
• Rwanda gains autonomy	18 October 1960
• Burundi gains autonomy	21 December 1961
• Independence	1 July 1962
Currency	Belgian Congo franc (1916–60) Ruanda-Urundi franc (1960–62)
Preceded by Succeeded by German East Africa Kingdom of Burundi Republic of Rwanda
Today part of	Burundi Rwanda

Ruanda-Urundi (French pronunciation: [ʁwɑ̃da uʁundi]),^[a] later Rwanda-Burundi, was a geopolitical entity, once part of German East Africa, that was occupied by troops from the Belgian Congo during the East African campaign in World War I and was administered by Belgium under military occupation from 1916 to 1922. It was subsequently awarded to Belgium as a Class-B Mandate under the League of Nations in 1922 and became a Trust Territory of the United Nations in the aftermath of World War II and the dissolution of the League. In 1962 Ruanda-Urundi became the two independent states of Rwanda and Burundi.
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