Kanem Region
Kanem is one of the 23 regions of Chad. It is named after the famous Kanem Empire, which was centred in this vicinity. The region's capital is Mao. It was created in 2002 from the former prefecture of Kanem.- Province of Chad with 506,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 359 metres (1,178 feet)
- Description: region of Chad
- Also known as“Kanem”“Minţaqah Kānim”“Préfecture du Kanem”
Kanem Region
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Latitude
15° north
Longitude
15° east
Open location code
7F7Q2222+22
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Kanem Region” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ካነም”
- Arabic: “كانم”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كانم”
- Arabic: “منطقة كانم”
- Azerbaijani: “Kanem”
- Basque: “Kanem”
- Belarusian: “Канем (рэгіён)”
- Belarusian: “Канем”
- Bengali: “কানেম অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Канем”
- Catalan: “Regió de Kanem”
- Cebuano: “Kanem Region”
- Chinese: “加奈姆区”
- Chinese: “加奈姆區”
- Danish: “Kanem”
- Dutch: “Kanem”
- Esperanto: “Kanem”
- Estonian: “Kanem”
- Estonian: “Kanemi piirkond”
- Finnish: “Kanem”
- French: “Kanem”
- French: “région du Kanem”
- French: “Région du Kanem”
- Georgian: “კანემის რეგიონი”
- German: “Kanem”
- German: “TD-KA”
- Greek: “Κανέμ”
- Gujarati: “કાનેમ પ્રદેશ”
- Hausa: “Kanem”
- Hindi: “कानेम प्रदेश”
- Hindi: “कानेम”
- Indonesian: “Kawasan Kanem”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Kanem”
- Indonesian: “Region Kanem”
- Italian: “provincia di Kanem”
- Italian: “Provincia di Kanem”
- Japanese: “カネム州”
- Javanese: “Kanem”
- Kannada: “ಕಾನೆಮ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Kazakh: “Канем”
- Kirghiz: “Канем”
- Korean: “카넴주”
- Latvian: “Kanemas reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Kanemo regionas”
- Malay: “Kanem Region”
- Malay: “Kanem”
- Marathi: “कानेम प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kanem Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Kanem”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanem”
- Norwegian: “Kanem”
- Oromo: “Kanem”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਨੇਮ”
- Persian: “کانم”
- Polish: “Region Kanem”
- Portuguese: “Kanem”
- Pushto: “کانم”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Kanem”
- Russian: “Канем”
- Sinhala: “කනෙම් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Kanem”
- Slovenian: “TD-KA”
- Somali: “Kanem”
- Spanish: “Region de Kanem”
- Spanish: “Región de Kanem”
- Swahili: “Kanem”
- Swedish: “Kanem”
- Tajik: “Канем”
- Tamil: “காணேம் பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Канем”
- Telugu: “కానెమ్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “คาเนม”
- Turkish: “Kanem Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Kanem”
- Turkish: “Kanim”
- Ukrainian: “Канем”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Канем”
- Urdu: “کانم”
- Urdu: “کانیم ریجن”
- Urdu: “کانیم علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Kanem”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Kanem”
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