Central African Republic
Central African Republic is a country in Middle Africa, with its capital at Bangui, and is home to roughly 5.3M people.
Its official languages are French, Sango; the currency in circulation is Central African CFA franc (Fr); people from here are called Central African.
- »It sits almost exactly at the geographic centre of the African continent.
Central African Republic touches six neighbours: Cameroon to the west, Chad to the north, DR Congo to the south, Republic of the Congo to the southwest, South Sudan to the east and Sudan to the northeast. Directions run from one centre to the other. Neighbours in six different compass directions make this one of the better-connected outlines in the set.
Bangui was founded as a French outpost on the Ubangi river, and its name comes from the rapids beside it.
621,204 km² (239,848 sq mi), 42nd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of South Sudan.
Population 5,330,690, 121st of 198 on file. That averages 8.6 per km² (22 per sq mi).
Combines the pan-African colours with the French tricolour, crossed by a single red band, the blood shared by all. The design deliberately joins African and European colours.