Lake Chad
Lake Chad 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.
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Amcaja, Public domain.- Lake
- …lies at an elevation of 280 metres (919 feet)
- Description: lake in Africa
- Also known as“Chad Lake”“Lac Tchad”“Lake Tchad”“Tchad Lake”“Tsad”“Tschad”
NASA, Public domain.Lake Chad
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Latitude
13.12428° or 13° 7′ 27″ north
Longitude
14.45396° or 14° 27′ 14″ east
Open location code
7F5P4FF3+PH
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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”
- Dagbani: “Lake Chad”
- 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”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Chad Lake”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lac Tchad”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lake Chad”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tchad Lake”
- Greek: “λίμνη Τσαντ”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Τσαντ”
- Guarani: “Ypa Cháde”
- Hausa: “Tabkin Chadi”
- Hausa: “Tafkin 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”
- Igbo: “Chad Lake”
- Igbo: “Lac Tchad”
- Igbo: “Lake Chad”
- Igbo: “Ọdọ Mmiri Chad”
- Igbo: “Tchad Lake”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ಚಾಡ್ ಸರೋವರ”
- 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 күле”
- 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”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل چاڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “乍得湖”
- Yakut: “Чад (күөл)”
- Yakut: “Чад”
- Yue Chinese: “乍得湖”
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