Unknown Countries Explained: Central African Republic🇨🇫 

Fun fact: The Central African Republic isn't technically the center of Africa, because the central point of that continent isn't located in that country.

Bangui is pronounced Bong-gee! And I agree that the Central African Republic flag stands out because of all the colors and its unique design. The flag of the Central African Republic was designed by Barthélemy Boganda, who was the country's first president in 1958 when it was an autonomous part of the French Community (the country would get their independence in 1960). Boganda’s flag design symbolically expressed his realization that France and Africa must march together. He combined the French tricolor with the pan-African tricolor, with the red stripe vertical to represent the common blood of mankind, and the blood they must shed to protect Africa like they did to protect France. The yellow star represents independence and African unity and progress. It was intended to be the flag of the United States of Latin Africa, a union of Romance language-speaking countries from Chad to Angola which he proposed in 1957. He proposed it as a counter to the British-influenced southern bloc of South Africa and Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. However, the ambitious plan was cut short due to a plane crash in 1959 which ended his life.

The federation of French Equatorial Africa was actually established in 1910! What's now the CAR was only a colony within that federation and not the entire thing. The Upper Ubangi was established as part of the French Congo in 1891. The area was contested from 1892 to 1895 with the Congo Free State. The Upper Ubangi was a separate colony from July 1894 until December 1899, during which it was folded back into the French Congo. The Upper Shari region was established as part of the French Congo in September 1900. That same year the Company of the Upper Ubangi Sultanates took over 140,000 squared km of Upper Ubangi as a concession. The territories were united as the separate colony of Ubangi-Shari in December 1903. Ubangi-Shari would change its name to the Central African Republic in 1958 when it was granted autonomy. Jean-Bédel Bokassa didn't become emperor in 1960 when the country declared independence, as he first rose to power thanks to the Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état at the end of 1965 which overthrew David Dacko and instituted a military junta, and then he declared the Central African Empire in 1976. He'd rule as Emperor of Central Africa until 1979 when France partnered with David Dacko to restore the republic and reinstate Dacko.

This was actually one of the first African countries I knew because I liked the flag and the name was easy to remember.

0:58 south Sudan got independence in 2011

Geography now does a similar job, but yours is a little different and concentrating on lesser known countries is good. I'd love to see one on Nauru

Sometimes I really think RU-vid hears us. Just yesterday I thought of this country and thought how would it be. Plz continue this playlist of unknown countries ✴️❤💥

Incredible video. Please make more of these. Extremely helpful. 😃

This is why they say that you don't have to be rich to be beautiful 😍❤️

You forgot to mention there is a civil war going on 💀

A fascinating video. More of them please.

What are the most developed/safest areas? Beautiful country. Love this informative video!

I would love for you to continue this series. Can you do East Timor next?

Love this. More please

You definitely need to more of these

It borders south sudan as well as regular sudan, ur map was outdated

The driver of the ricksaw that we rode in NYC is from CAF. He's a kind dude.

Is the elephant footage at 0:36 photoshopped/edited? Absolutely beautiful.

I swear I only heard about Eritrea for the first time like 2 years ago and I’m big into geography. Crazy.

Nice

Almost every video on an African country always boils down to the poverty of the country...talk about its precolonial history or the cultures & foods of the people, like damn.

very nice thank you - i was i Gabon for a short while and saw the overall poor infastructure and lack of health care

Really really unknown

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Can you move thete with millions

0:56 south sudan: am I a joke to you?

This video is an unserious and poorly-made attempt at clickbaiting views. The majority of statistics and a large number of claims altogether are either wildly incorrect or completely baseless. From forgetting about the existence of an entire country to assuming that the country can't develop due to a "small population," I have compiled a list of obvious errors in the video here: 1. Map on 0:50 is outdated and does not include South Sudan. Narration omits South Sudan as well. See google maps. 2. Bangui pronounciation at 1:03 is incorrect. See Cambridge Dictionary. 3. Pronounciation of Sango language at 1:20 is incorrect. See Merriam-Webster Dictionary. 4. At 2:10, video claims French Equatorial Africa was founded in 1889 when it was not created until 1910. 5. At 2:35 while describing independence in 1960 the image portrayed is of Jean-Bédel Bokassa who did not become head of state until 1966. 6. Site of graphic at 3:00 is not a trustworthy source. Scroll to the bottom of the website where they themselves claim their data is not accurate. For comparison, video estimate of 74 Euros per month is 2.33 times higher than the World Bank estimate of GDP per capita in 2022. 7. Fertility rate described at 3:20 of 4.4 births per woman is wildly incorrect, correct estimate should be around 5.98. See World Bank data. 8. Claim at 4:23 that the Congo Basin is the world's largest carbon sink is not correct. That would be the oceans. See United Nations on climate change. 9. Pronounciation of Mont Ngaoui at 5:14 is incorrect. See howtopronounce. 10. Claim at 5:33 that GDP of country is 2.8 billion USD is incorrect, as of 2022 it is closer to 2.38 billion USD. See World Bank data. 11. Claim at 6:00 that less than 1% of citizens have bank accounts is incorrect, correct figure is 13.75%. See World Bank data. 12. Claim at 6:26 of unlucky geography is rather baseless. Endowed with numerous natural resources such as diamonds and gold, the Central African Republic has the potential to develop a strong mining-based economy. Video itself makes this claim later at 6:45. See United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. 13. Similarly, claim at 6:29 that factors preventing economic growth are geography, political instability, and small population is rather untrue and baseless. Political instability has and will continue to be a large factor yet this video fails to explain why in any sort of detail. For a better understanding of factors limiting growth in the country, see articles on CFA Franc neocolonialism, Wagner Group. Spoiler alert: a small population has nothing to do with it. 14. Claim at 6:45 that CAR has an abundance of oil is untrue, the country has no known commercially exploitable petroleum or gas resources. See Mbendi website or United Nations. 15. Jungle background photo used throughout the video (such as at 1:24) is a stock photo of a forest in Tanzania. See Aerial view of mangrove forest and river in tanzania mangrove jungles. 16. In fact, numerous background photos throughout the video are just random stock photos vaguely showing nature and Africa, suggesting lazy video editing. 17. Entire video cites zero sources for the litany of images used and claims made, thus it is no surprise that numerous other statistics are incorrect (national population, life expectancy, cell subscriptions, etc.). Ultimately, this makes for a lousy video that fundamentally misinforms online audiences. One star out of five.

I flew over the Central African Republic today and decided to watch this video to learn more about it haha

CAR also borders South Sudan…

why didn't you mention CAR's political "instability" ? In your video it's sounds like their poor just because it's like that. This country never had a unified territory since 2004 and the state nearly exists at all in this country always shaken by the french, un and russian (wagner did horrible massacres recently) interventions.

Fun fact : with 622.000 sqkm, the CAR is only slightly smaller than France and....Texas

A country in conflict surrounded by countries in conflict. Not a good spot to be in.

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You sound like your gun the Middlesbrough area, maybe york? Where are you from?

The introduction song was in swahili

I liked what I saw but I expected to hear more about David Dacko and the Emperor Bokassa and developments after the overthrow of Dacko by Kolingba.

You're wrong on bitcoin legal tender. It makes sense even when almost nobody has internet access. I assume they can choose which they want to use - either their national paper shitcoin or bitcoin.

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00:09 i know only one intersting fact about car , that its famous for its clear sky

Unknown to who?

why is tis poping sund necessary? what it contributes ?

Kondogbia?

You call 24c hot? Yet your summers routinely break 45c??

Spent 4 months in the boonies there in 1988. 2eme REI.

You barely mentioned the ongoing civil war. Wtf is the point of these videos if you don't cover the most basic thing about these peoples' daily lives.

The starting map itself is old. The majority of the estern border is with South Sudan, not Sudan 😂

I like (somewhat) CAP as it is. Not a lot though...

Your map is outdated, it borders South Sudan too since its creation in 2011

I'm glad there are videos about it, because I would never go there. That place scares me.

They might have a chance of development if they could gain freedom from their colonial currency

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Sold country by Rwanda

Why not call ot CENTRAL AFRICA?

There are three Middle Kingdoms (三個中國) in the World: People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国) Republic of China (中華民國) Central African Republic (中非共和國) 😂

The fact that I know the C.A.R. is that the tallest people in the world are found here and not in the Netherlands

Most poorest country in Africa 😮😢

Never heard anyone in English referring to a person from this country. Are they "Central African Republicans"?

But this poor country once had an empire 😂…

How could you say y ou are describing the CAR without discussing Bokassa? And learn how to proonounce Bangui - it NOT ban goooo ee

"Unknown"? To whom? (Okey, "we" discovered America etc...?)

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It must be one of the most insignificant places on the globe. Like nothing but nothing going for it.

Central African Republic is a C.A.R with no wheels

Such a boring lazy name. Like calling Scotland "top part of Britain".

Do they drink unbongo?