Population Statistics

Central African Republic

Bangui population

812,407people · latest figure

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Bangui has a population of 812,407, making it the 1st largest place we list in Central African Republic.

Bangui holds 14.3% of Central African Republic's 5,698,984 people. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 542,393, a rise of 50%.

812,407
population
542,393
in 2005
+49.8%
since 2005
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
BimboOmbella-M'Poko348,802
BégouaOmbella-M'Poko264,067
CarnotMambéré129,032

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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.