"Chad has several regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the ...
south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in Chad and the second-largest in Africa. The capital N´Djamena is the largest city. Chad´s official languages are Arabic and French. Chad is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Islam (51.8%) and Christianity (44.1%) are the main religions practiced in Chad.
Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium AD, a series of states and empires had risen and fallen in Chad´s Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.09.2020)
- Latitude15.466667175293
- Longitude19.39999961853
- Population10543464