Chad Country Info - Africa

Description and Basic Information

Chad with its capital N'Djamena is located in Africa (Central Africa, south of Libya). It covers some 1,284,001 square kilometres (slightly more than three times the size of California) with 10,111,000 citizens. French, Arabic and are languages spoken by the majority in Chad (consider regional differences). Niger, Libya, Central African Republic, Sudan, Cameroon and Nigeria are bordering countries.

Chad is currently experiencing political turmoil and the UK and US governments advise against all but essential travel to Chad. Anywhere outside the capital, N'Djamena, is highly dangerous, especially in the north—where a special travel permit is necessary.
Chad is a country in the Sahel, south of Libya, east of Niger and Cameroon. Broad, arid plains in center, desert in north, mountains in northwest, lowlands in south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the remains of an immense lake that occupied 330,000 km² of the Chadian Basin 7,000 years ago. Although in the 21st century it covers only 17,806 km², the lake is Africa's second largest wetland.

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About Chad

The terrain offers broad, arid plains in center, desert in north, mountains in northwest, lowlands in south. The average density of population is about 7 per km². The climate in Chad can be described as tropical in south, desert in north. Possible natural disasters include hot, dry, dusty harmattan winds occur in north or periodic droughts or locust plagues.

To reach someone in Chad dial +235 prior to a number. There are 13,000 installed telephones. And there are 2,686,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".td". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 22 regions/states in Chad we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Chadian population grew at a rate of 2.04% (or by 214,876 citizens). With 166,481 deaths and 423,004 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 2.43%. -41,647 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Chad: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.