1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Central African Republic
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Bangui—812,407, Africa/Bangui, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of the Central African Republic.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bangui is GeoNames ID 2389853. Its recorded administrative path is Bangui Sub-Prefecture → Bangui → Central African Republic, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Bangui occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2023-11-29; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Bangui ranks 685 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Central African Republic entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 135. Its 812,407 population value is 1.00 times the 812,407 median for the country cohort and 0.90 times the 902,588 regional median. Bangui is rank 1 among the 1 selected Central African Republic entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Bangui's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Bangui's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Yaoundé at 782.535 km with 1,299,369 recorded people; Kisangani at 852.161 km with 1,181,788 recorded people; N'Djamena at 943.811 km with 1,359,526 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 161.276 km. Compared with Yaoundé, Bangui's recorded population is 0.63 times as large. Against Bangui, Yaoundé follows Centre → Cameroon in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Cameroon cohort rather than Central African Republic, uses Africa/Douala instead of Africa/Bangui, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Bangui's. Against Bangui, Kisangani follows Ville de Kisangani → Tshopo → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort rather than Central African Republic, uses Africa/Lubumbashi instead of Africa/Bangui, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Bangui's. Against Bangui, N'Djamena follows N'Djamena → Chad in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Chad cohort rather than Central African Republic, uses Africa/Ndjamena instead of Africa/Bangui, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Bangui's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,199 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bangui's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2389853, the coordinate pair 4.3612 / 18.5550, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2220957 at 782.535 km bind Bangui to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bangui's reference point is 4.3612° north and 18.5550° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Bangui is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Bangui's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bangui's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bangui's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bangui, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Bangui's closest other entries in this atlas are Yaoundé (782.535 km), Kisangani (852.161 km), N'Djamena (943.811 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-11-29; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.