Chad
Saharan Chad
Borkou Region

Faya

Faya-Largeau is the largest city in northern and was the capital of the region of Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti. It is now in the Borkou Region, which was formed in 2008 from the Borkou Department of the former Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region.
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  • Type: City with 14,100 residents
  • Description: place in Borkou, Chad
  • Also known as: “Faya-Largeau” and “Largeau”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Faya-Largeau Airport.

Aerodrome
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is an serving Faya-Largeau, the largest city in northern . It is located in Chad's Borkou Region. Since 2013, three French Rafale are parked in Faya-Largeau to protect the Chadian airspace.

Faya

Latitude
17.9209° or 17° 55′ 15″ north
Longitude
19.0953° or 19° 5′ 43″ east
Population
14,100
Elevation
242 metres (794 feet)
IATA airport code
FYT
United Nations Location Code
TD FYT
Open location code
7F9XW3CW+94
Open­Street­Map ID
node 322497973
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2432678
Wiki­data ID
Q516769
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Mari—“Faya” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Arabic: “فايا لارجو”
  • Asturian: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Bengali: “ফায়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Фая-Ларжо”
  • Catalan: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Cebuano: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Chinese: “法亞-拉若”
  • Croatian: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Danish: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Dutch: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Finnish: “Faya-Largeau”
  • French: “Faya-Largeau”
  • German: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Greek: “Φαγιά-Λαρζό”
  • Greek: “Φαγιά”
  • Hebrew: “פאיה-לארגו”
  • Hindi: “फाया-लारझ़ो”
  • Indonesian: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Italian: “Faya Largeau”
  • Japanese: “ファヤ・ラルジョー”
  • Lithuanian: “Faja Laržo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Malay: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Northern Frisian: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Norwegian: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Persian: “فایا لارجو”
  • Polish: “Faya”
  • Portuguese: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Romanian: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Russian: “Файя-Ларжо”
  • Russian: “Фая-Ларжо”
  • Silesian: “Faya”
  • Slovenian: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Spanish: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Spanish: “Faya”
  • Swahili: “Faya”
  • Tagalog: “Faya-Largeau”
  • Ukrainian: “Файя-Ларжо”
  • Ukrainian: “Фая-Ларжо”
  • Urdu: “فایا-لارگیاو”
  • Western Mari: “Файя-Ларжо”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Faya”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.