page_title: Central African Republic
section_title: Foreign relations
hierarchical_section_title: Central African Republic / Government / Foreign relations
caption_attribution_description: Русский: С Президентом Центральноафриканской Республики Фостеном Арканжем Туадерой.
context_page_description: The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest and Cameroon to the west. The CAR covers a land area of about 620,000 square kilometres and had an estimated population of around 4.7 million as of 2018. As of 2020, the CAR is the scene of a civil war, ongoing since 2012.
  Most of the CAR consists of Sudano-Guinean savannas, but the country also includes a Sahelo-Sudanian zone in the north and an equatorial forest zone in the south. Two-thirds of the country is within the Ubangi River basin, while the remaining third lies in the basin of the Chari, which flows into Lake Chad.
  What is today the Central African Republic has been inhabited for millennia; however, the country's current borders were established by France, which ruled the country as a colony starting in the late 19th century.
context_section_description: The Central African Republic relies heavily on Russian mercenaries for the protection of its diamond mines.
caption: President Faustin Touadera with Russian President Vladimir Putin, 23 May 2018
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