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Its discharge at Bangui ranges from about 800 m 3 /s (28,000 cu ft/s) to 11,000 m 3 /s (390,000 cu ft/s), with an average flow of about ~4,000 m 3 /s (140,000 cu ft/s). [3] It is believed that the Ubangi's upper reaches originally flowed into the Chari River and Lake Chad before being captured by the Congo in the early Pleistocene.
Bangui (French pronunciation:; or Bangui in Sango, formerly written Bangui in English) is the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic.It was established as a French outpost in 1889 and named after its location on the northern bank of the Ubangi River (French: Oubangui); the Ubangi itself was named from the Bobangi word for the "rapids" located beside the settlement, [2] which ...
During the 2012-13 Central African Republic conflict, refugees from the Central African Republic capital of Bangui, including many family members of President François Bozizé, fled here after the capital fell to Séléka rebels on 24 March 2013. [2] The Ubangi river in Zongo, Province of Sud-Ubangi in the DR Congo - (August 16, 1985).
RN1 (Route Nationale 1) north from Bangui. 482 km via Bossangoa to Moundou, Chad. RN2 east from Bangui. 1202 km via Bambari and Bangassou to the South Sudanese border at Bambouti. RN3 west from RN1 at Bossembélé. 453 km via Bouar and Baboua to Boulai on the Cameroon border as part of the east-west Trans-African Highway 8 Lagos-Mombasa.
Poverty incidence of Bangui 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 24.50 2009 12.63 2012 10.61 2015 8.52 2018 4.74 2021 6.08 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Government Local government Main article: Sangguniang Bayan Former seal of Bangui, used until 2014. Bangui, belonging to the first congressional district of the province of Ilocos Norte, is governed by a mayor designated as its local chief ...
Boali is located on National Highway 1 (RN1), [4] about 100 km northwest of the national capital, Bangui. [5] The road, one of the country's few paved highways, leads on to Bouar, and ultimately to Cameroon. [6] Situated on the Mbali River, Boali is noted for its waterfalls and for the nearby hydroelectric works.
The commune Bangui is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the prefectures and economic prefectures. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is CF, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Central African Republic. The second part is either of the following:
Bangui is a prefecture in the Central African Republic. The prefecture has an estimated population of 1,425,276 in 2022 and an area of 3,260 km 2 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Bangui is the capital of the prefecture.