26 Facts About Central African Republic

Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

The Central African Republic is estimated to be the unhealthiest country as well as the worst country in which to be young.

Central African Republic is a member of the United Nations, the African Union, the Economic Community of Central African States, the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and the Non-Aligned Movement.

Name of the Central African Republic is derived from the country's geographical location in the central region of Africa and its republican form of government.

Boganda maintained a political stance against racism and the colonial regime but gradually became disheartened with the French political system and returned to the Central African Republic to establish the Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa in 1950.

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Dacko became the country's first president when the Central African Republic formally received independence from France at midnight on 13 August 1960, a date celebrated by the country's Independence Day holiday.

Central African Republic introduced a new constitution in 1986 which was adopted by a nationwide referendum.

Central African Republic is a landlocked nation within the interior of the African continent.

The Central African Republic contains six terrestrial ecoregions: Northeastern Congolian lowland forests, Northwestern Congolian lowland forests, Western Congolian swamp forests, East Sudanian savanna, Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic, and Sahelian Acacia savanna.

The Central African Republic had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 9.

In 2008, Central African Republic was the world's least light pollution affected country.

Central African Republic is the focal point of the Bangui Magnetic Anomaly, one of the largest magnetic anomalies on Earth.

Central African Republic is divided into 16 administrative prefectures, two of which are economic prefectures, and one an autonomous commune; the prefectures are further divided into 71 sub-prefectures .

Politics in the Central African Republic formally take place in a framework of a presidential republic.

Central African Republic relies heavily on Russian mercenaries for the protection of its diamond mines.

Central African Republic is heavily dependent upon foreign aid and numerous NGOs provide services that the government does not provide.

On 8 January 2008, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon declared that the Central African Republic was eligible to receive assistance from the Peacebuilding Fund.

On 12 June 2008, the Central African Republic requested assistance from the UN Peacebuilding Commission, which was set up in 2005 to help countries emerging from conflict avoid devolving back into war or chaos.

In 2017, Central African Republic signed the UN treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The Central African Republic is one of the few African countries to have an African language as their official language.

Per capita income of the Central African Republic is often listed as being approximately $400 a year, one of the lowest in the world, but this figure is based mostly on reported sales of exports and largely ignores the unregistered sale of foods, locally produced alcoholic beverages, diamonds, ivory, bushmeat, and traditional medicine.

Currency of the Central African Republic is the CFA franc, which is accepted across the former countries of French West Africa and trades at a fixed rate to the euro.

Food crops are not exported in large quantities, but still constitute the principal cash crops of the country, because Central Africans derive far more income from the periodic sale of surplus food crops than from exported cash crops such as cotton or coffee.

Central African Republic is a member of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa .

Central African Republic primarily uses hydroelectricity as there are few other low cost resources for generating electricity.

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Presently, the Central African Republic has active television services, radio stations, internet service providers, and mobile phone carriers; Socatel is the leading provider for both internet and mobile phone access throughout the country.