Ubangi-Shari
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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And it’s not as though he was casting aside centuries of tradition: While Ubangi and Shari are indigenous words, the area was not known as Ubangi-Shari before the French arrived.
From Slate • Mar. 9, 2012
The Central African Republic was once a French colony known as Ubangi-Shari, because the land is split between the basins of the Ubangi and Shari rivers.
From Slate • Mar. 9, 2012
He wanted to combine Ubangi-Shari with nine other countries in the region that spoke Romance languages, to form something called “the United States of Latin Africa.”
From Slate • Mar. 9, 2012
Barth�l�my Boganda, 48, stoutish Premier of Ubangi-Shari in French Equatorial Africa, which now bears the ambitious name of the Central African Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Background: The former French colony of Ubangi-Shari became the Central African Republic upon independence in 1960.
From The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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