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The Bongo are (were?) a Sudanese tribe living between the head-waters of the bahr el-Ghazal and the Ubangi.
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Bangui is the capital of the Central African Republic. It stands on the River Ubangi.
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The Central African Republic is a country in west Africa. It has a total area of 622,980 km2. The climate is tropical; hot, dry winters; mild to hot, wet summers. The terrain is vast, flat to rolling, monotonous plateau; scattered hills in the north-east and the south-west. Natural resources are diamonds, uranium, timber, gold, oil. The religion is 24% indigenous beliefs, 25% Protestant, 25% Roman Catholic, 15% Muslim, 11% other; animistic beliefs and practices strongly influence the Christian majority. The official language is French with Sangho, Arabic, Hunsa and Swahili also spoken. The Central African Republic was a French colony from the late 19th century and in 1958 the territory, then known as Ubangi-Shari, became self-governing within French Equitorial Africa. In 1960 the country changed its name to Central African Republic.
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Ubangi-Shari is a former name of the Central African Republic.
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The River Ubangi (Mobangi) is a major river in central Africa. It is a tributary of the River Zaire. It rises on the border of the Central African Republic and Zaire and flows west and south 2240 km to the River Zaire at Irebu.
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The Uele is a river in central Africa, rising near the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) and Uganda and flowing 1100 km west to join the Bomu River and form the Ubangi River.
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Ali is an Ubangi language spoken in the Central African Republic.
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Awak is an Ubangi language spoken in Nigeria.
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Bai (Pai, Minjia, Minchia, Minkia, Labbu, Nama, Leme) is a language spoken chiefly in Yunnan Province, but also in parts of Hunan, Sichuan, and Guizhou provinces, China. Bai has three distinct dialects which may actually be separate langauges.
Bai is a Ubangi language spoken in southern Sudan.
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Baka is an Ubangi language spoken by the Pygmies of Cameroon and Gabon.
Baka is a Bagirmi language spoken in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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