Central Africa
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Not to be confused with Central African Republic, Central African Federation, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, or British Central Africa.
Central Africa is a core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda. Middle Africa (as used by the United Nations when categorising geographic subregions) is an analogous term that includes Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe.[1] All of the states in the UN subregion of Middle Africa, plus those otherwise commonly reckoned in Central Africa (11 states in total), constitute theEconomic Community of Central African States (ECCAS).[2] Since its independence in 2011, South Sudan has also been commonly included in the region.[3][4]