Lowpoly Atlas · country
Central African Rep.
Central African Rep. is drawn here at 320 of 323 vertices, from Natural Earth's 1:50m boundaries. Every figure below is measured from that geometry in an equal-area projection, not looked up.
Open Central African Rep. in the studio| Area | 622,384 km² |
|---|---|
| Coast and border at 1:50m | 4,345 km |
| Furthest from an edge | 282 km, at 6.98°N 21.71°E |
| Coastline dimension | 1.066 |
| Compactness | 0.414 |
| Separate landmasses | 1 |
| Equator | northern hemisphere |
| Borders | landlocked |
What these mean
Furthest from an edge is the pole of inaccessibility: the centre of the largest circle that fits inside the border, and so the hardest place in the country to leave it from. Coastline dimension is how much longer the outline gets as you measure it more finely - 1.0 is a straight line, and a deeply indented coast climbs towards 1.3. Compactness compares the area with the area of a circle of the same perimeter, so 1.0 is a perfect circle.
The length is given at a stated scale on purpose, and will be shorter than the figure you may have seen elsewhere. A coastline has no single length: measure it with a shorter ruler and you find more inlets, and the total grows without ever settling. These boundaries are drawn at 1:50 million, so Central African Rep.'s 4,345 km is a floor rather than an answer, and the dimension of 1.066 above is the rate at which it would keep climbing. Area has no such problem and converges.