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A map of Chad Location of Chad. Chad is one of the 47 landlocked countries in the world and is located in North Central Africa, measuring 1,284,000 square kilometers (495,755 sq mi), nearly twice the size of France and slightly more than three times the size of California.
An enlargeable topographic map of Chad. Geography of Chad. Chad is: a landlocked country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Africa. Central Africa; Middle Africa; North Africa; partially within the Sahara Desert; Time zone: West Africa Time ; Extreme points of Chad High: Emi Koussi 3,445 m (11,302 ft)
Chad has several regions: the Sahara desert in the north, an arid zone in the centre known as the Sahel and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. [9] It is home to over 200 different ethnic and ...
The geology of Chad includes an area of metamorphic rocks of Precambrian age surrounding the Chad Basin which is floored with Tertiary and Quaternary sediments.There are Precambrian rocks in the Tibesti Mountains in the north and the east while in eastern Chad are basement rocks, some of which extend into Darfur in neighbouring Sudan.
This is a list of Regions of Chad by Human Development Index as of 2024 with data for the year 2022. [1] N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, and the most developed region.
Sila or Dar Sila [2] is a region of Chad, located in the south-east of the country. It was created in 2008 from the departments of Sila and Djourf Al Ahmar which were previously part of Ouaddaï Region. [3] The capital of the region is Goz Beïda.
Chad geography stubs (370 P) Pages in category "Geography of Chad" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Lake Chad (Arabic: بحيرة تشاد, Kanuri: Sádǝ, French: Lac Tchad) is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area in excess of 1,000,000 km 2 (390,000 sq mi).