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Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Cathédrale Notre-Dame (Bangui), Chinko and 4 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Central African Republic and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Protected area in the Central African Republic
A reserve of tropical rainforest in the Congo Basin, in the Central African Republic's southwest, spread over 6,865.54 km² (2,650.80 sq mi). Set up in 1990, it encircles Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, and together they form the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas.
Photo: Damiano Luchetti, Public domain
Roman Catholic cathedral in Bangui, Central African Republic
The Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l’Immaculée-Conception, a Roman Catholic cathedral built in 1937, seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bangui in the Central African Republic (CAR). It is built of red brick, common in France's former tropical colonies.
Photo: Freeman Sipila (VOA), Public domain
Nature reserve in the Central African Republic
Also called Chinko Nature Reserve or the Chinko Project Area, a protected area in the Central African Republic. African Parks, a non-profit conservation group, began managing it in December 2014, in partnership with the country's government.
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
Forest clearing in the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Central African Republic
A natural clearing in the forest of the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, in the south-west of the Central African Republic. It is among several clearings of the Congo Basin rainforest, rich in minerals, that draw big mammals from the forest around them.
Photo: JosepMGracia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Church in Bangassou, Central African Republic
Also called Bangassou Cathedral, a Catholic church in Bangassou, a town of Mbomou prefecture in the south of the Central African Republic.
Photo: Alexsegrelles, CC BY-SA 3.0
Religious building in Central African Republic
A Roman Catholic church in Bangui, Central African Republic, in French the Eglise de Fatima de Bangui.
Photo: © UNICEF | Pierre Holtz/ hdptcar , Bangui, Central African Republic, CC BY-SA 2.0
Power station in Central African Republic
A group of hydroelectric plants near Boali, in the Central African Republic, with a capacity of 38.75 megawatts (51,960 hp).
Photo: uncredited, Public domain
Usually shortened to CAR, a landlocked country of Central Africa covering about 620,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi). Six countries surround it: Chad and Sudan on the north and northeast, South Sudan on the east, the two Congos on the south and southwest, and Cameroon on the west.
Officially The Central African Republic.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 7: Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Cathédrale Notre-Dame (Bangui), Chinko and Dzanga Bai and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Central African Republic that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
French. The currency is XAF.
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