# central-african-republic

53,491 polygons from `central-african-republic-latest.osm.pbf` on Geofabrik
([source](https://download.geofabrik.de/africa/central-african-republic.html)), filtered by the
[22,075-tag whitelist](https://github.com/NoeFlandre/osm-stats) and
classified by continent + size bin.

| field | value |
|-------|-------|
| country | `central-african-republic` |
| polygons | **53,491** |
| extract_status | **clean** |
| pbf_date | 2026-07-02 |
| source | `central-african-republic-latest.osm.pbf` |
| Geofabrik extract | <https://download.geofabrik.de/africa/central-african-republic.html> |

## Geometry

The parquet file in this folder
(`central-african-republic.parquet`) has the same schema as the combined
`combined/all_world.parquet`. Each row carries the polygon
**geometry as WKT** (default), plus centroid + area + the
whitelist-matched tag.

Load with:

```python
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
table = pq.read_table("per_country/central-african-republic/central-african-republic.parquet")
df = table.to_pandas()
# df["geometry_wkt"] is a column of WKT strings; parse with shapely.wkt.loads
```

## Notes

Landlocked Central African country straddling the savanna and equatorial forest belts, with the Ubangi River forming much of its southern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Geofabrik /africa/ PBF (~94 MB). Capital Bangui is the only large urban mapping centre; the rest of the country has patchy OSM coverage that improved after the 2013 HOT Mapping Initiative.