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Lake Chad

Lake Chad is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: , , , and , in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area in excess of 1,000,000 km.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in Africa
  • Also known as: “Chad Lake”, “Lac Tchad”, “Lake Tchad”, “Lake_Chad”, “Tchad Lake”, “Tsad”, and “Tschad”
Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Lake Chad

Latitude
13.12428° or 13° 7′ 27″ north
Longitude
14.45396° or 14° 27′ 14″ east
Elevation
280 metres (919 feet)
Open location code
7F5P4FF3+PH
Geo­Names ID
2346202
Wiki­data ID
Q125309
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Satellite Map

Discover Lake Chad from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Chad” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tsjadmeer”
  • Albanian: “Çadi”
  • Albanian: “Liqeni i Çadit”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة تشاد الكبرى”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة تشاد”
  • Arabic: “بحيره تشاد”
  • Aragonese: “Laco Chad”
  • Armenian: “Չադ լիճ”
  • Asturian: “Llagu Chad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çad gölü”
  • Bashkir: “Чад”
  • Basque: “Chad lakua”
  • Basque: “Txad aintzira”
  • Basque: “Txad Lakua”
  • Basque: “Txad”
  • Belarusian: “Чад (возера)”
  • Belarusian: “Чад”
  • Bengali: “চাদ হ্রদ”
  • Breton: “Lenn Tchad”
  • Bulgarian: “Езеро Чад”
  • Bulgarian: “Езерото Чад”
  • Bulgarian: “Чад”
  • Burmese: “ချတ်အင်း”
  • Catalan: “llac Txad”
  • Catalan: “Llac Txad”
  • Cebuano: “Lake Chad”
  • Cebuano: “Lake Tśad”
  • Central Kanuri: “Kǝmaduwu chad bǝ”
  • Central Kanuri: “Lake Chad”
  • Chinese: “乍得湖”
  • Chinese: “查德湖”
  • Chuvash: “Чад”
  • Croatian: “Čad”
  • Croatian: “Jezero Čad”
  • Czech: “Čad”
  • Czech: “Čadské jezero”
  • Czech: “Jezero Čad”
  • Danish: “Chad-søen”
  • Danish: “Lake Chad”
  • Danish: “Tchad-sø”
  • Danish: “Tchad-søen”
  • Danish: “Tchadsøen”
  • Danish: “Tsjad-søen”
  • Dutch: “Tsjaadmeer”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉada Lago”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉado”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Ĉado”
  • Esperanto: “Laĝo Ĉado”
  • Estonian: “Tšaadi järv”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Chad Talaab”
  • Finnish: “Tsad-järvi”
  • Finnish: “Tšad-järvi”
  • Finnish: “Tsadjärvi”
  • Finnish: “Tšadjärvi”
  • Finnish: “Tshad-järvi”
  • Finnish: “Tshadjärvi”
  • French: “lac Tchad”
  • French: “Lac Tchad”
  • Galician: “Lago Chad”
  • Georgian: “ჩადის ტბა”
  • German: “Tschad-See”
  • German: “Tschadsee”
  • Greek: “λίμνη Τσαντ”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Τσαντ”
  • Guarani: “Ypa Cháde”
  • Hausa: “Tabkin Chadi”
  • Hebrew: “אגם צ’אד”
  • Hebrew: “ימת צ’אד”
  • Hebrew: “ימת צ’ד”
  • Hindi: “चाड झील”
  • Hungarian: “Csád-tó”
  • Icelandic: “Tjadvatn”
  • Icelandic: “Tsjadvatn”
  • Ido: “Lago Chad”
  • Inari Sami: “Tšadjävri”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Chad”
  • Irish: “Lac Tchad”
  • Irish: “Loch Shead”
  • Italian: “Ciad”
  • Italian: “Lago Chad”
  • Italian: “Lago Ciad”
  • Japanese: “チャド湖”
  • Kazakh: “Чад көлі”
  • Kirghiz: “Чад”
  • Korean: “차드호”
  • Latin: “Lacus Tzadia”
  • Latvian: “Čada ezers”
  • Latvian: “Čadas ezers”
  • Latvian: “Lac Tchad”
  • Latvian: “Lake Chad”
  • Lingala: “Etímá Tsadi”
  • Lithuanian: “Čadas”
  • Lithuanian: “Čado ežeras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tschadséi”
  • Macedonian: “Чад”
  • Malagasy: “Farihy Tchad”
  • Malay: “Tasik Chad”
  • Malayalam: “ഛാഡ് തടാകം”
  • Mazanderani: “Çad deryaçe”
  • Mazanderani: “چاد دریاچه”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩადი (ტობა)”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩადი”
  • Mongolian: “Чад нуур”
  • Nepali: “चाड ताल”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tschad Sia”
  • Northern Sami: “Chadjávri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjadsjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjadsjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Tsjadsjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Chad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Megachad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Megachad”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cead mere”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ceadmere”
  • Panjabi: “ਚਾਡ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “درياچه چاد”
  • Persian: “درياچهٔ چاد”
  • Persian: “دریاچه چاد”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ چاد”
  • Polish: “Czad”
  • Polish: “Jezioro Czad”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Chade”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Tchad”
  • Quechua: “Chad qucha”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Ciad”
  • Russian: “Озеро Чад”
  • Russian: “Чад”
  • Sardinian: “Lagu Ciàd”
  • Scots: “Lake Chad”
  • Scots: “Loch Chad”
  • Serbian: “Čad”
  • Serbian: “Lac Tchad”
  • Serbian: “Језеро Чад”
  • Serbian: “Чад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Čad”
  • Shona: “Nyanza Chadhi”
  • Sinhala: “චැඩ් විල”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tšaadjäuʹrr”
  • Slovak: “Čadské jazero”
  • Slovenian: “Čad”
  • Slovenian: “Čadsko jezero”
  • Spanish: “Lago Chad”
  • Spanish: “Lake Chad”
  • Swahili: “Chad”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Chad”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Chadi”
  • Swedish: “Bahr es-salam”
  • Swedish: “Chadsjön”
  • Swedish: “Tchadsjön”
  • Swedish: “Tsad-sjön”
  • Swedish: “Tsadesjön”
  • Swedish: “Tsadsjön”
  • Swedish: “Tschadsjön”
  • Tamil: “சாட் ஏரி”
  • Tatar: “Чад (күл)”
  • Tatar: “Чад”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบชาด”
  • Turkish: “Çad Gölü”
  • Tyap: “A̱gba̱ndang Jok Caad”
  • Ukrainian: “озеро Чад”
  • Ukrainian: “Чад”
  • Urdu: “جھیل چاڈ”
  • Urdu: “چاڈ جھیل”
  • Uzbek: “Chad”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Chad”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Tchad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Chad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lake Chad”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Tchad”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Tsiad”
  • Western Frisian: “Tsjaadmar”
  • Wu Chinese: “乍得湖”
  • Yakut: “Чад (күөл)”
  • Yakut: “Чад”
  • Yue Chinese: “乍得湖”
  • “Lake Chad”

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