Central African Republic covers 620,987 km² km² on the new Equal Earth world map — 0.5%% of all land on Earth, making it the 44th largest country in the world and the 19th largest in Africa. At 7° latitude Mercator only inflates Central African Republic by about 1%%, so the old and new maps largely agree on it — unlike the far north, where Mercator's stretch is dramatic.
For scale: Central African Republic is roughly the same size as France (635,064 km² km²).
You could fit 3 of Tunisia inside Central African Republic.