Africa dwarfs Central African Republic: about 30,370,000 km² km² against 620,987 km² km². At true size Africa is about 48.9× larger — the whole of Central African Republic fits into Africa roughly 48 times.
The old Mercator map treated both about equally (1× vs 1× inflation), so at least their relative sizes were preserved — even if both were drawn at the wrong absolute scale.
Central African Republic fits 48× into Africa.