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Central African Republic-General Information
Location
The Central African Republic (C.A.R.) is situated, as its name
indicates,
in the center of the African Continent. It is bordered by Zaire and
the
People's Republic of Congo to the South, Chad to the North, Sudan
to the
East and Cameroon to the West. Its area is 623.000 square km, about
the
size of Texas. The country forms a transitional area between the
subsaharan savana and the equatorial West African forest. The landlocked
situation of the C. A. R. is exemplified by the long distances to
the
Atlantic and the Indian Oceans, respectively. Bangui, the capital
city
is 1.046 km from Douala (Cameroon) and more than ...