🇨🇫 Central African Republic

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Geography & Borders

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Introduction & Background

The Central African Republic (CAR; Template:Lang-sg Template:IPA-all; Template:Lang-fr, RCA;9 Template:IPA-fr, or Centrafrique, Template:IPA-fr) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Cameroon to the west.

The Central African Republic covers a land area of about 620,000 square kilometres (240,000sqmi). As of 2021update, it had an estimated population of around 5.5 million. As of 2022update, the Central African Republic is the scene of a civil war, ongoing since 2012.10 Most of the Central African Republic consists of Sudano-Guinean savannas, but the country also includes a Sahelo-Sudanian zone in the north and an equatorial forest zone in the south. Two-thirds of the country is within the Ubangi River basin (which flows into the Congo), while the remaining third lies in the basin of the Chari, which flows into Lake Chad.