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cen·tral africa

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Central African Republic, Central Africanoun

    a landlocked country in central Africa; formerly under French control; became independent in 1960

Wiktionary

  1. Central Africanoun

    A core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda.

Wikipedia

  1. Central Africa

    Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions. Middle Africa is an analogous term used by the United Nations in its geoscheme for Africa and consists of the following countries: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe. These eleven countries are members of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). Six of those countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Republic of the Congo) are also members of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) and share a common currency, the Central African CFA franc. The African Development Bank, on the other hand, defines Central Africa as seven countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.

ChatGPT

  1. central africa

    Central Africa is a geographical region located in the middle part of Africa continent. It includes countries lying within or intersected by the Equator, and is often used to specifically refer to the area within the African Great Lakes region which includes nations such as Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and sometimes parts of Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan and South Sudan. The region is characterized by varying landscapes including rainforests, savannas, and deserts, as well as a diverse collection of cultures, languages, and wildlife.

Wikidata

  1. Central Africa

    Central Africa is a core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda. Middle Africa is an analogous term that includes Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe. All of the states in the UN subregion of Middle Africa, plus those otherwise commonly reckoned in Central Africa, comprise the Economic Community of Central African States.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of central africa in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of central africa in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of central africa in a Sentence

  1. Ndona Muboyayi:

    I’ve spent a lot of time in Central Africa because my dad is from the Congo, and some of the propaganda that’s being spread right now here in Evanston is similar to some of the divisiveness that took place in Rwanda before the massacre.

  2. Andrew Cunningham:

    Spillovers from wild animals will have occurred historically, but the person who would have been infected would probably have died or recovered before coming into contact with a large number of other people in a town or in a city, these days with motorized transport and planes you can be in a forest in central Africa one day, and in a city like central London the next.

  3. Samuel Wasser:

    Identifying close relatives indicates that poachers are likely going back to the same populations repeatedly -- year after year -- and tusks are then acquired and smuggled out of Central Africa on container ships by the same criminal network, this criminal strategy makes it much harder for authorities to track and seize these shipments because of the immense pressure they are under to move large volumes of containers quickly through ports.

  4. Mark Jones:

    There may be as few as 1,000 lions left across the whole of western central Africa, and given that these lions almost certainly belong to that same sub-species, every single population becomes really, really important.

  5. Mahamat Kamoun:

    Central Africa must move forward and not backwards. Burkina Faso has set a good example.

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