Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Uganda.
Extreme south-eastern Nigeria east to western Central African Republic, south to western PRCongo and northern Angola (Cabinda); also northern and eastern DRCongo (south to Itombwe) east to extreme western Uganda.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Eastern Bearded Greenbul (Criniger chloronotus) [XC767397]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Mikongo, Lope, Ogoou\u00e9-Ivindo, Gabon (song)
Eastern Bearded Greenbul (Criniger chloronotus) [XC241447]
by Mike Nelson from Rhoko Forest (Cercopan), Iko Esai, Cross River., Nigeria (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Forms a superspecies with Bearded Bulbul (Criniger barbatus), and often considered conspecific. Subspecies ansorgeanus of Bearded Bulbul (Criniger barbatus) is morphologically and geographically intermediate between nominate subspecies of that species and present species and could arguably be considered a subspecies of the current species.
Proposed subspecies weileri (from Ituri, in north-eastern DRCongo) described on basis of somewhat darker overall coloration, but not satisfactorily distinguishable, as variation not constant.