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Mpanda, Mpanda

town in the Commune of Mpanda, Bubanza Province, Burundi

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ6928202 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mpanda is a town in the Commune of Mpanda in Bubanza Province in northwestern Burundi.

The settlement lies on the RN 9 highway, which runs north from Bujumbura via Muzinda, Rugazi and Remesha.

It is the seat of the Commune of Mpanda.

The Mpanda General Hospital is located in the town, built using Chinese funding and inaugurated in 2011.

It is a public regional hospital serving a population of 110,661 as of 2014.

Editorial summary

“Mpanda, Mpanda” enters the record as town in the Commune of Mpanda, Bubanza Province, Burundi. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mpanda, town and Commune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mpanda, town and Commune.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Mpanda, Mpanda” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mpanda, town and Commune provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6928202. Authority coordinates are -3.171, 29.404. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2014.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Mpanda, Mpanda”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mpanda, Mpanda primary sources, Mpanda, Mpanda archive and Mpanda research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Mpanda, Mpanda”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Mpanda, Mpanda” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.