3.  Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Sao Tome and Principe.

4. There are more than 80 ethnic groups in the Central African Republic C.A.R. each with its own language. Sango, the language of a small group along the Oubangui River, is the national language spoken by the majority of Central Africans.

5.  Congo River, Tanganyika Lake, Albert, Edward Lake, and Kivu Lake.

6.  By making the country/ Making main source of industrial diamonds and copper

7.  Factories making steel, cement, tires, shoes, textiles, proceeds fools, and beverages

8.  Gold, petroleum fools, diamonds, and copper

9. Ethnic groups-more than 80% Bava33% Banda 27% Sara1% M'baka 4%, Yakoma 4%, other 2% M'baka 4%, Yakoma 4%, other 2% Religions: Protestant 25%, Religion-Roman Catholic 25%, Islam 15%, indigenous beliefs 35% djia13 %Mboum7%, Food, fruits, cereal, grains, vegetables, milk, meat

10.  Type: Republic. Independence: August 13, 1960. Granted autonomous status within French Community on December 1, 1958 Branches Executive president, prime minister, and Council of Ministers. Legislative unicameral National Assembly. Judicial Constitutional Court, inferior courts, criminal courts, Court of Appeals.

11. Africa is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

12.  Situated about 500 mi 805 km north of the equator, the Central African Republic is a landlocked nation bordered by Cameroon, Chad, the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of Congo. The Ubangi and the Shari are the largest of many rivers.

13.  Communications: telephones main lines in use 10,000 2004 mobile cellular 60,000 2004. radio broadcast stations AM 1 FM 5, shortwave.  International disputes: about 30,000 refugees fleeing the 2002 civil conflict in the CAR still reside in southern Chad periodic skirmishes over water and grazing rights among related pastoral populations along the border with southern Sudan persist.