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Central African Rep.

Central African Republic · République centrafricaine
Africa · Middle Africa

0Population

622.98Kkm² of land

$468GDP / person

BanguiCapital

ISO codes: CF · CAF
Density: 8 /km²
Languages: French, Sango
Currency: Central African CFA franc (XAF)
Dial code: +236
Internet domain: .cf
Time zones: 1
Coastline: Landlocked
Map centre: 6.9900° N, 20.9070° E
Demonym: Central African
UN region: Middle Africa
Economy: Least developed region
Income group: Low income
Total GDP: $2.22B
Sovereignty: Independent · UN member
Borders: 6

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By the numbers

How Central African Rep. stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.

Population

127th

of 242 · 0.06% of world population

Land area

44th

of 242 · 0.42% of world land

GDP per person

233rd

richest of 242 by output per person

Population density

215th

most crowded of 242

Ten facts about Central African Rep.

The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.

1

Straddles the divide between the Congo Basin rainforest and the Sahel savanna.

2

Population is about 4,745,185 people, the 127th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,618 of everyone alive.

3

Covers 622,984 km², making it the 44th largest country here - about 6.8 times the size of Portugal.

4

Population density is about 8 people per km².

5

The capital is Bangui, at 4.37° N, 18.56° E, with a metropolitan population of about 831,925.

6

Shares land borders with 5 countries: Cameroon, Chad, Dem. Rep. Congo, Congo and Sudan.

7

Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.

8

Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Bangui.

9

The currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, symbol Fr).

10

Has 2 official languages: French and Sango.

Local time

Live, from PHP's IANA database.

Africa/Bangui

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UTC+01:00

Cities

The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.

1 ★ Bangui Bangui 4.3666° N, 18.5583° E 831.93K

2 Bambari Ouaka 5.7620° N, 20.6672° E 62.1K

3 Obo Haut-Mbomou 5.4000° N, 26.5000° E 12.89K

4 N'Délé Bamingui-Bangoran 8.4091° N, 20.6530° E 11.76K

Land neighbours

5 countries share a border with Central African Rep..