Why is buffering in C++ important?

I tried to print Hello World 200,000 times and it took me forever, so I have to stop. But right after I add a char array to act as a buffer, it took less than 10 seconds. Why?

Before adding a buffer:

#include <iostream> 
using namespace std;

int main() {
        int count = 0;
        std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
        for(int i = 1; i < 200000; i++)
        {       
                cout << "Hello world!\n";
                count++;
        }
                cout<<"Count:%d\n"<<count;
return 0;
}

And this is after adding a buffer:

#include <iostream> 
using namespace std;

int main() {
        int count = 0;
        std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
        char buffer[1024];
        cout.rdbuf()->pubsetbuf(buffer, 1024);
        for(int i = 1; i < 200000; i++)
        {       
                cout << "Hello world!\n";
                count++;
        }
                cout<<"Count:%d\n"<<count;
return 0;
}

This makes me think about Java. What's the advantages of a using BufferReader to read in file?