It consists entirely of the city of Bujumbura, Burundi's former capital.

Bujumbura Mairie Province is in the west of Burundi.

It borders Lake Tanganyika to the west and is surrounded by Bujumbura Rural Province to the north, east and south.

It is in the Imbo natural region apart from a small section of the east in the Mumirwa natural region.

The city of Bujumbura is divided into three communes (as of 2014),[2] which are sub-divided into 13 neighborhoods (per Ministerial Order No.