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Chad

Chad is a landlocked country situated in the centre of Africa. Chad is home to more than 200 different ethnic groups and there are national parks, desert lakes, sand dunes, canyons and camel caravans that will interest the daring and adventurous.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include N’Djamena and Moundou.

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N'Djamena is the capital of Chad. It is by far the country's largest city, with a population of 1 million people. It lies directly on the border of , and is on the confluence of the Chari and Logone rivers.

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is the second-largest city in Chad and is the capital of the region of Logone Occidental. The city lies on the Mbéré River some 475 kilometres south of the capital .

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is a city in central-eastern Chad and the capital of the Ouaddaï Region. By road it is 749 kilometres northeast of the national capital of and 164 kilometres northwest of Adre, on the border with .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Sahelian Chad and Saharan Chad.

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lies between the Sahara Desert to the north and the more fertile savanna territory to the south. It is populated primarily by nomadic people.

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The is the vast region in the north of Chad.

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The Southern Savanna is one of the most hospitable and populated regions of Chad.

Chad

Latitude of center
15° north
Longitude of center
19° east
Population
10,300,000
Area
1,284,000 km² (495,755 miles²)
Elevation
340 metres (1,115 feet)
Capital
Currency
Franc (XAF)
Phone code
.td
Internet domain
235
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424298076
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2434508
Wiki­data ID
Q657
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Chad” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Чад”
  • Abkhazian: “Чад”
  • Achinese: “Chad”
  • Adyghe: “Чад”
  • Afrikaans: “Tsjad”
  • Akan: “Kyad”
  • Albanian: “Çad”
  • Albanian: “Çadi”
  • Amharic: “ቻድ”
  • Amis: “Chad”
  • Angika: “चैड”
  • Arabic: “تشاد”
  • Arabic: “تَشَاد”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية تشاد”
  • Aragonese: “Chad”
  • Armenian: “Չադ”
  • Arpitan: “Tch·ad”
  • Arpitan: “Tchad”
  • Assamese: “চাড”
  • Assamese: “চাদ”
  • Asturian: “Chad”
  • Atayal: “Chad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çad”
  • Balinese: “Chad”
  • Bambara: “Cad”
  • Bambara: “Cadi”
  • Banjar: “Chad”
  • Bashkir: “Чад”
  • Basque: “Txad”
  • Bavarian: “Tschad”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Чад”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Чаду”
  • Belarusian: “Чад”
  • Bengali: “চাদ”
  • Bengali: “চ্যাড”
  • Betawi: “Cad”
  • Bhojpuri: “चाड”
  • Bishnupriya: “চাদ”
  • Bislama: “Chad”
  • Bosnian: “Čad”
  • Breton: “Tchad”
  • Bulgarian: “Чад”
  • Burmese: “ချဒ်”
  • Burmese: “ချဒ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “República del Txad”
  • Catalan: “Txad”
  • Cebuano: “Chad”
  • Cebuano: “Tśad”
  • Central Bikol: “Tsad”
  • Central Kanuri: “Chad”
  • Central Kurdish: “چاد”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆماری چاد”
  • Chavacano: “Chad”
  • Chechen: “Чад”
  • Cherokee: “ᏣᏗ”
  • Chinese: “Chad”
  • Chinese: “Zhàdé”
  • Chinese: “乍得 / 查德”
  • Chinese: “乍得”
  • Chinese: “乍得共和国”
  • Chinese: “查德”
  • Chinese: “查德共和國”
  • Chuvash: “Чад”
  • Cornish: “Chad”
  • Corsican: “Ciad”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Çad”
  • Croatian: “Čad”
  • Czech: “Čad”
  • Dagbani: “Chad”
  • Danish: “Tchad”
  • Dhivehi: “ޝާދު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Çad”
  • Dinka: “Cad”
  • Dotyali: “चाड”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Tsjaad”
  • Dutch: “TCD”
  • Dutch: “TD”
  • Dutch: “Tsjaad”
  • Dzongkha: “ཅཱཌ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Чад”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشاد”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉadio”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉado”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Ĉadio”
  • Estonian: “Tiaad”
  • Estonian: “Tšaad”
  • Estonian: “Tšaadi Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Chad”
  • Ewe: “Tsad nutome”
  • Ewe: “Tsyadi”
  • Extremaduran: “Chad”
  • Farefare: “Chad”
  • Faroese: “Kjad”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Chad”
  • Finnish: “Tsad”
  • Finnish: “Tšad”
  • Finnish: “Tšadin tasavalta”
  • French: “la République du Tchad”
  • French: “République du Tchad”
  • French: “Tchad”
  • French: “TD”
  • Fulah: “Caad”
  • Fulah: “Caadi”
  • Gagauz: “Çad”
  • Galician: “Chad”
  • Galician: “República do Chad”
  • Ganda: “Caadi”
  • Ganda: “Chad”
  • Georgian: “ჩადი”
  • German: “Tschad”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Chad”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Chad”
  • Gilaki: “چاد”
  • Greek: “Τσαντ”
  • Guarani: “Cháde”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Tchad”
  • Gujarati: “ચાડ”
  • Gujarati: “ચૅડ”
  • Haitian: “Tchad”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chad”
  • Hausa: “Cadi”
  • Hebrew: “צ’אד”
  • Hebrew: “צ׳אד”
  • Hindi: “चड”
  • Hindi: “चाड”
  • Hungarian: “Csád Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Csád”
  • Icelandic: “Tjad”
  • Icelandic: “Tsjad”
  • Ido: “Chad”
  • Igbo: “Chad”
  • Iloko: “Chad”
  • Inari Sami: “Tšad täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Tšad”
  • Indonesian: “Chad”
  • Interlingua: “Tchad”
  • Interlingue: “Chad”
  • Irish: “Sead”
  • Italian: “Ciad”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Chad”
  • Japanese: “チャド”
  • Japanese: “チャド共和国”
  • Javanese: “Chad”
  • Kabiyè: “Caadɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Ččad”
  • Kalaallisut: “Chad”
  • Kalmyk: “Чадигин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಚಾಡ್”
  • Kannada: “ಚಾದ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “CHA”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Chad Respublikası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Chad”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “TCD”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Чад Республикасы”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Чад”
  • Kashmiri: “چاڑ”
  • Kazakh: “Ташад”
  • Kazakh: “Чад”
  • Khmer: “ឆាដ”
  • Kikuyu: “Chad”
  • Kikuyu: “Chadi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Cade”
  • Kirghiz: “Чад Республикасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Чад”
  • Komering: “Chad”
  • Kongo: “Tasadi”
  • Korean: “차드”
  • Korean: “챠드”
  • Korean: “챠드공화국”
  • Kotava: “Tcada”
  • Kurdish: “Çad”
  • Kurdish: “چاد”
  • Ladin: “Ciad”
  • Ladino: “Chad”
  • Lao: “ຊາດ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຊາດ”
  • Latin: “Tzadia”
  • Latvian: “Čada”
  • Latvian: “Čadas Republika”
  • Ligurian: “Ciad”
  • Limburgan: “Tsjaad”
  • Lingala: “Tsadi”
  • Lingala: “Tsádi”
  • Lingala: “Tshadi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Txad”
  • Literary Chinese: “乍得”
  • Lithuanian: “Čadas”
  • Livvi: “Čad”
  • Lojban: “lo gugdetudu”
  • Lojban: “tcad”
  • Lombard: “Ciad”
  • Lombard: “Cjad”
  • Low German: “Tschad”
  • Low German: “Tsjaad”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Čad”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Tšad”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Tshadi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tschad”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ciad”
  • Macedonian: “Чад”
  • Madurese: “Chad”
  • Malagasy: “Tsady”
  • Malay: “Cad”
  • Malay: “Chad”
  • Malayalam: “ഛാഡ്”
  • Malayalam: “റിപ്പബ്ലിക്ക് ഓഫ് ഛാഡ്”
  • Maltese: “Ċad”
  • Maltese: “Chad”
  • Maltese: “iċ-Chad”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika taċ-Chad”
  • Manipuri: “ꯆꯥꯗ (ꯂꯩꯄꯥꯛ)”
  • Manipuri: “ꯆꯥꯗ”
  • Manx: “Shad”
  • Maori: “Kāta”
  • Marathi: “चाड”
  • Mazanderani: “چاد”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Chad”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chad”
  • Minangkabau: “Chad”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩადი”
  • Mirandese: “Xade”
  • Moksha: “Чад”
  • Mongolian: “Чад”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “تشاد”
  • Nauru: “Chad”
  • Nauru: “Tsiad”
  • Navajo: “Séíbąąh Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “चाड”
  • Newari: “चाड”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Chad”
  • North Ndebele: “Chadi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tschad”
  • Northern Luri: “چاد”
  • Northern Sami: “Chad dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Chad”
  • Northern Sami: “Chada dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Tčad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Tsjad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Republikken Tsjad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tchad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjad”
  • Norwegian: “Tsjad”
  • Novial: “Chad”
  • Obolo: “Chad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chad”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܫܐܕ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cead”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Chad”
  • Oriya: “ଚାଡ଼”
  • Oriya: “ଚାଦ୍”
  • Oromo: “Chaad”
  • Ossetian: “Чад”
  • Pali: “चाड”
  • Pampanga: “Chad”
  • Pampanga: “Tsad”
  • Pangasinan: “Jhad”
  • Panjabi: “ਚਾਡ”
  • Papiamento: “Chad”
  • Pedi: “Chad”
  • Persian: “چاد”
  • Piemontese: “Ciad”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Chad”
  • Polish: “Czad”
  • Portuguese: “Chade”
  • Portuguese: “República do Chade”
  • Pushto: “چاد”
  • Pushto: “چاډ”
  • Quechua: “Chad”
  • Quechua: “Chat”
  • Rakhine: “ချဒ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Ciad”
  • Romansh: “Tschad”
  • Rundi: “Cadi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Чад”
  • Russian: “Республика Чад”
  • Russian: “Чад”
  • Rusyn: “Чад”
  • Sakizaya: “Chad”
  • Samoan: “Chad”
  • Samogitian: “Čads”
  • Sango: “Sâde”
  • Sango: “Tyâde”
  • Sanskrit: “चाड”
  • Santali: “ᱪᱟᱫᱽ”
  • Sardinian: “Chad”
  • Sardinian: “Ciàd”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Tschad”
  • Scots: “Chad”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Seàd”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Siad”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Chad”
  • Serbian: “Čad”
  • Serbian: “Чад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Čad”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၶျၢတ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Chad”
  • Shona: “Chadhi”
  • Shona: “Chadi”
  • Sicilian: “Ciad”
  • Silesian: “Czad”
  • Sindhi: “چاڊ”
  • Sinhala: “චැච්”
  • Sinhala: “චෑඩ්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tšaad tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tšaad”
  • Slovak: “Čad”
  • Slovak: “Čadská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Čad”
  • Somali: “Jaad”
  • Somali: “Jad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چاد”
  • Southern Sotho: “Chad”
  • Spanish: “Chad”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Chad”
  • Spanish: “República de Chad”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵛⴰⴷ”
  • Sundanese: “Chad”
  • Swahili: “Chad”
  • Swahili: “Chadi”
  • Swati: “IShedi”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Tchad”
  • Swedish: “Tchad”
  • Swedish: “Tsad”
  • Swedish: “Tschad”
  • Swiss German: “Tschad”
  • Tachelhit: “Tcad”
  • Tagalog: “Chad”
  • Tagalog: “Tsad”
  • Tajik: “Чад”
  • Talysh: “Cad”
  • Talysh: “Çad”
  • Tamil: “சாட்”
  • Taroko: “Chad”
  • Tatar: “Чад”
  • Telugu: “చాద్”
  • Tetum: “Xade”
  • Thai: “ชาด”
  • Thai: “ประเทศชาด”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐชาด”
  • Tibetan: “ཅཻཌ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཆཱ་ཌ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቻድ”
  • Tigrinya: “ጫድ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sāti”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tschad”
  • Tsonga: “Chad”
  • Tumbuka: “Chad”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “تشاد”
  • Turkish: “Çad Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Çad”
  • Turkmen: “Çad”
  • Tyap: “Caad”
  • Tyap: “Cadi”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Caad”
  • Udmurt: “Чад”
  • Uighur: “چاد”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Чад”
  • Ukrainian: “Чад”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Čad”
  • Urdu: “چاڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Chad”
  • Venetian: “Ciad”
  • Veps: “Čad”
  • Vietnamese: “Chad”
  • Vietnamese: “Sát (Chad)”
  • Vietnamese: “Sát”
  • Vietnamese: “Tchad”
  • Vlaams: “Tsjad”
  • Volapük: “Tjadän”
  • Võro: “Tšaad”
  • Walloon: “Tchad”
  • Walloon: “Tchade”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chad”
  • Welsh: “Chad”
  • Welsh: “Tchad”
  • Welsh: “Tsiad”
  • Western Armenian: “Չատ”
  • Western Balochi: “چاد”
  • Western Frisian: “Tsjaad”
  • Western Mari: “Чад”
  • Western Panjabi: “چاڈ”
  • Western Panjabi: “چڈ”
  • Wolof: “Cadd”
  • Wolof: “Càdd”
  • Wu Chinese: “乍得”
  • Yakut: “Чад”
  • Yiddish: “טשאד”
  • Yiddish: “טשאַד”
  • Yoruba: “Ṣààdì”
  • Yoruba: “Tsad”
  • Yue Chinese: “乍得”
  • Zeeuws: “Tsjaod”
  • Zhuang: “Chad”
  • Zulu: “i-Chad”
  • Zulu: “ITshedi”
  • “Čads”
  • “Chad”
  • “ma Sate”
  • “TCD”
  • “TD”
  • “Tšaad”
  • “चाड”

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