Map of Central African Republic

Central African Republic is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 7.0° N, 21.0° E. Central African Republic is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 6 neighbours — Cameroon, Chad, DR Congo, Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Sudan — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Central African Republic is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Central African Republic is surrounded by the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Central African Republic covers about 622,984 km² (240,535 sq mi). That makes it the 42nd-largest country in the world by area and the 19th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 35 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 6,470,307, the 109th-largest in the world and the 36th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Central African Republic has an average population density of about 10 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 36th by population and 19th by area.

The seat of government is Bangui, and the official currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, Fr), and the main official languages are French and Sango. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Central African Republic carries the ISO country codes CF and CAF, dials on the international calling code +236 and uses the .cf internet domain.

Central African Republic shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are DR Congo (capital Kinshasa, about 112,832,000 people), Sudan (capital Khartoum, about 51,662,000 people), Cameroon (capital Yaoundé, about 29,442,327 people), Chad (capital N'Djamena, about 19,340,757 people), South Sudan (capital Juba, about 15,786,898 people) and Republic of the Congo (capital Brazzaville, about 6,142,180 people).

By area, Central African Republic is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 7.0° N, 21.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Central African Republic within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Bangui. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Central African Republic lies about 777 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Central African Republic keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

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

The official languages are French and Sango, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +236 and websites commonly use the .cf internet domain.

In short, Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Bangui. Central African Republic has a population of about 6,470,307 and covers around 622,984 km² (240,535 sq mi), ranking it 109th in the world by population and 42nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Central African Republic.

The flag of Central African Republic is composed of four equal horizontal bands of blue, white, green and yellow intersected at the center by a vertical red band of equal size as the horizontal bands. A yellow five-pointed star is situated on the hoist side of the blue band.

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