What is Bangui?
{{Infobox settlement |official_name = Bangui |image_skyline = Bangui Shopping District.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = Bangui shopping district |image_map = CAR-Bangui.png |mapsize = 150px |map_caption = Map of the [[Central African Republic]] showing Bangui |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|Central African Republic}} |subdivision_type1 = Prefecture |subdivision_name1 = [[Ombella-M'Poko]] |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Jean-Barkes Gombe-Kette |population_as_of = 2006 |population_total = 622,771 |population_density_km2 = 9295.1 |area_total_km2 = 67 |area_total_sq_mi = 26 |coordinates = {{coord|4|22||N|18|35||E||display=title,inline}} |elevation_m = 369 |elevation_ft = }} '''Bangui''' is the [[capital (city)|capital city]] of [[Central African Republic]]. It is the largest [[city]] in the [[country]]. The city has a [[population]] of 531,763 people. Most of the population of the Central African Republic lives in the western parts of the country, near Bangui. == History == The city was [[:wikt:found|founded]] in [[1889]] in what was then the [[France|French]] [[colony]] [[Haut-Oubangui]] ('Upper Ubangi'). The colony was later renamed Oubangui-Chari and made part of [[French Equatorial Africa]]. The city grew around the French [[military]] post on the [[Ubangi]] river.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.world66.com/africa/centralafricanrepublic/bangui |title=World66 - Bangui travel guide |access-date=2007-06-09 |archive-date=2013-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231002344/http://www.world66.com/africa/centralafricanrepublic/bangui |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bangui served as an [[administration]] center for the colony and is now the administrative center of the CAR. Much [[violence]] in Bangui came after the March [[1981]] [[election]]s. These elections took place after the French removed [[Jean-Bedel Bokassa]] from office and replaced him with [[David Dacko]]. People who did not like Dacko [[wikt:attack|attacked]] Bangui and made Dacko leave the country. [[Andre Kolingba]]