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Central African Republic

Capital: Bangui

  • About two-thirds of the country's land drains into the Ubangi River, which feeds the Congo River, while the rest drains toward Lake Chad.
  • The Bouar Megaliths in the west are large standing stones from the late Stone Age, dating to roughly 3500 to 2700 BCE.
  • The far south has an equatorial forest zone, the centre is mostly savanna, and the north has a Sahel-Sudanian zone.

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