Yao
Yao is a town in Chad and the capital of the Fitri department. Yao is also the name of a pre-colonial Sultanate in the same area, the Yao Sultanate.
- Type: City with 7,640 residents
- Description: town in Chad
- Also known as: “Yao ياؤ” and “Yao, Chad”
Yao
- Categories: municipality of Chad and locality
- Location: Batha Region, Chad, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
12.85101° or 12° 51′ 4″ north
Longitude
17.5593° or 17° 33′ 34″ east
Population
7,640
Elevation
293 metres (961 feet)
Open location code
7F4VVH25+CP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Yao” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ياؤ”
- Asturian: “Yao”
- Catalan: “Yao (Txad)”
- Catalan: “Yao”
- Chinese: “亚奥”
- Danish: “Yao”
- Dutch: “Yao”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ياؤ”
- French: “Yao”
- German: “Yao”
- Italian: “Yao (Ciad)”
- Italian: “Yao”
- Japanese: “ヤオ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yao”
- Norwegian: “Yao”
- Portuguese: “Yao”
- Russian: “Яо (Чад)”
- Russian: “Яо”
- Urdu: “یاو، چاڈ”
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