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The Central African Republic is a landlocked country of 623,000 square kilometres, and its prefectures are what anyone there uses to say where something is: Ouham-Pendé for the north-west, Haute-Kotto for the empty north-east, Mbomou for the Ubangi frontier with the Congo. The list has grown since many maps were drawn, so one that is more than a few years old is likely to be missing a prefecture or two.
The prefectures (préfectures) of the Central African Republic, the first tier of the country, with the capital Bangui as a prefecture of its own. Several names are a river or a pair of them: the Ouham and the Pendé, the Mambéré and the Kadéï, the Kotto and the Mbomou. Where a name comes in a pair, learn the pair together, because the prefectures sit next to one another on the map.
Some of the newest are cut from older ones: Lim-Pendé from Ouham-Pendé, Ouham-Fafa from Ouham and Mambéré from Mambéré-Kadéï. Older maps draw the longer list of names as one prefecture each, so the file used here, which draws all 20, is the reason this map differs from the one on a wall.
The groups are ours rather than the country's, since no official level sits between the prefecture and the country. They cut the map by where the prefectures lie, which is enough to learn it one piece at a time. The prefectures are the Central African Republic Sub-prefectures grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Haute-Kotto is the largest prefecture, a broad stretch of the east and north-east around the Kotto river and the diamond towns.
Bangui is the smallest prefecture, the capital and the communes around it on the north bank of the Ubangi, with Ombella-M'Poko on its other sides.
Lim-Pendé was cut from Ouham-Pendé around Paoua, in the north-west. Older maps draw it as part of its parent.
20 on this map, counting Bangui as one and including Lim-Pendé, Ouham-Fafa and Mambéré, which older maps leave out.
No official level sits between the prefecture and the country, so the groups are ours, cut by where the prefectures lie.
The sub-prefectures, which number 85 on this map. They are their own quiz.
The tier below this one is Central African Republic Sub-prefectures. For another country at this level, see Chad Provinces.
