Sahel
Chad
Wadi Fira Region

Biltine

Biltine is a city in , and the capital of Wadi Fira region. The town was briefly captured on November 25, 2006, by the RADF, a rebel group, then recaptured the next day by the government, along with nearby that had been captured by a different rebel group, the UFDD.
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  • Type: City with 11,800 residents
  • Description: place in Wadi Fira Region, Chad
  • Also known as: “Biltine, Chad”

Biltine

Latitude
14.52517° or 14° 31′ 31″ north
Longitude
20.9287° or 20° 55′ 43″ east
Population
11,800
Elevation
518 metres (1,699 feet)
Open location code
7G62GWGH+3F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2090425801
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
244878
Wiki­data ID
Q1809024
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Biltine” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلتن”
  • Asturian: “Biltine”
  • Bulgarian: “Билтин”
  • Catalan: “Biltine”
  • Cebuano: “Biltine”
  • Chinese: “比尔廷”
  • Chinese: “比爾廷”
  • Danish: “Biltine”
  • Dutch: “Biltine”
  • Esperanto: “Biltine”
  • Estonian: “Biltine”
  • French: “Biltine”
  • German: “Biltine”
  • Hindi: “बिल्तीन, चाड”
  • Hindi: “बिल्तीन”
  • Indonesian: “Biltine, Chad”
  • Indonesian: “Biltine”
  • Italian: “Biltine”
  • Japanese: “ビルティーヌ”
  • Japanese: “ビルティン”
  • Malay: “Biltine, Chad”
  • Malay: “Biltine”
  • Northern Frisian: “Biltine”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Biltine”
  • Norwegian: “Biltine”
  • Persian: “بلتن”
  • Polish: “Biltine”
  • Portuguese: “Biltine”
  • Romanian: “Biltine, Ciad”
  • Romanian: “Biltine”
  • Russian: “Бильтин”
  • Spanish: “Biltine”
  • Swedish: “Biltine”
  • Tagalog: “Biltine (lungsod)”
  • Tagalog: “Biltine”
  • Ukrainian: “Більтин”
  • Urdu: “بلتن، چاڈ”
  • Urdu: “بلٹائن”
  • Vietnamese: “Biltine, Tchad”
  • Vietnamese: “Biltine”
  • Western Mari: “Бильтин”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Biltine”. Photo: Robertgrafl, Public domain.