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Sahelian Chad

N’Djamena

N'Djamena is the capital of . 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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  • Type: City with 1,090,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Chad
  • Also known as: “Inǧamīnā”, “Injamīnā”, “N’Djaména”, “NDjamena”, “Ndjemena”, “Niǧāmīnā”, “انْجَمِينا”, and “ندجاملينا”
  • Historically known as: “Fort-Lamy” and “Lamy”

Places of Interest

Highlights include N’Djamena International Airport and Chad National Museum.

Aerodrome
Photo: Goldsztajn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
N'Djamena International Airport serves N'Djamena, the capital city of . It is the country's only international airport. The airport is dual use, with civilian and military installations on opposite sides of the single runway.

Museum
Photo: Ken Doerr, CC BY 2.0.
The is the national museum of . Since November 2010, the national heritage has been highlighted in modern premises opposite the Palace of January 15, seat of the National Assembly, and next to an identical building housing the National Library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kousséri.

Photo: Amcaja, Public domain.
, founded and known as Mser in the indigenous Mser language, is a city in Far North Province, Cameroon. It is the capital of the department.

N’Djamena

Latitude
12.1192° or 12° 7′ 9″ north
Longitude
15.0503° or 15° 3′ 1″ east
Population
1,090,000
Elevation
299 metres (981 feet)
IATA airport code
NDJ
United Nations Location Code
TD NDJ
Open location code
7F4Q4392+M4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565022
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2427123
Wiki­data ID
Q3659
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“N’Djamena” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “N’Djamena”
  • Albanian: “Nxhamena”
  • Amharic: “ንጃመና”
  • Amharic: “ንጃሜና”
  • Arabic: “أنجمينا”
  • Arabic: “إنجامينا”
  • Arabic: “انجمينا”
  • Arabic: “فور لامي” (historical)
  • Arabic: “نجامينا”
  • Aragonese: “N’Djamena”
  • Armenian: “Նջամենա”
  • Arpitan: “N’Dj·amèna”
  • Asturian: “Xamena”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ncamena”
  • Balinese: “N’Djaména”
  • Bashkir: “Нджамена”
  • Basque: “N’Djamena”
  • Belarusian: “Нджамена”
  • Belarusian: “Нджамэна”
  • Bengali: “অন্ডজামেনা”
  • Bengali: “অ্যানাজামেনা”
  • Bengali: “ইনজামিনা”
  • Bengali: “এনজামেনা”
  • Bosnian: “N’Djamena”
  • Breton: “Ndjamena”
  • Bulgarian: “Нджамена”
  • Catalan: “N’Djamena”
  • Cebuano: “N’Djamena”
  • Central Bikol: “N’Djamena”
  • Central Kanuri: “N’Djamena”
  • Central Kurdish: “نجامێنا”
  • Chechen: “Нджамена”
  • Chinese: “N’Djamena”
  • Chinese: “恩將納”
  • Chinese: “恩賈梅納”
  • Chinese: “恩贾梅纳”
  • Classical Syriac: “ܢܓܡܝܢܐ”
  • Cornish: “N’Djamena”
  • Croatian: “N’Djamena”
  • Czech: “N’Djamena”
  • Danish: “N’Djamena”
  • Danish: “Ndjamena”
  • Dutch: “Ndjamena”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انجمينا”
  • Esperanto: “Nĝameno”
  • Estonian: “N’Djamena”
  • Fiji Hindi: “N’Djamena”
  • Finnish: “N’Djamena”
  • French: “N’Djaména”
  • French: “Ndjamena”
  • Galician: “Xamena”
  • Georgian: “ნჯამენა”
  • German: “Indschamina”
  • German: “N’Djamena”
  • Greek: “Ντζαμένα”
  • Greek: “Τζαμένα”
  • Guarani: “Jaména”
  • Gujarati: “એન્ડજામેના”
  • Haitian: “N’Djamèna”
  • Hakka Chinese: “N’Djamena”
  • Hausa: “Ndjamena”
  • Hebrew: “נג’מנה”
  • Hindi: “अन जमेना”
  • Hindi: “अन जामेना”
  • Hindi: “एन जमेना”
  • Hindi: “जमेना”
  • Hungarian: “N’Djamena”
  • Icelandic: “N’Djamena”
  • Ido: “N’Djamena”
  • Inari Sami: “N’Djamena”
  • Indonesian: “N’Djamena”
  • Interlingua: “N’Djamena”
  • Interlingue: “N’Djamena”
  • Irish: “N’Djamena”
  • Italian: “Fort-Lamy”
  • Italian: “N’Djamena”
  • Japanese: “ウンジャメナ”
  • Japanese: “エンジャメナ”
  • Japanese: “ヌジャメナ”
  • Japanese: “ン・ジャメナ”
  • Japanese: “ンジャメナ”
  • Javanese: “N’Djamena”
  • Kabiyè: “Njamena”
  • Kabyle: “Nǧamena”
  • Kannada: “ಎ‍ನ್‌ಝಮೀನಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Нджамена қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Нджамена”
  • Kikuyu: “N’Djamena”
  • Kirghiz: “Н‘ Жамена”
  • Kirghiz: “Нжамена”
  • Komering: “N’Djamena”
  • Kongo: “Ndjamena”
  • Korean: “은자메나”
  • Kotava: “N’Djamena”
  • Kurdish: “N’Djamena”
  • Latin: “Ndjamena”
  • Latvian: “Fortlamī”
  • Latvian: “Lamī forts”
  • Latvian: “Ndžamena”
  • Latvian: “Ndžamēna”
  • Ligurian: “N’Djamena”
  • Lingala: “N’Djamena”
  • Lithuanian: “Ndžamena”
  • Livvi: “N’Džamena”
  • Lombard: “N’Djamena”
  • Luxembourgish: “N’Djamena”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “N’Djamena”
  • Macedonian: “Нџамена”
  • Malagasy: “N’Djamena”
  • Malay: “N’Djamena”
  • Malayalam: “ൻഡ്ജാമെന”
  • Maltese: “N’Djamena”
  • Marathi: “इंजामिना”
  • Mazanderani: “انجامنا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “N’Djamena”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “N’Djamena”
  • Minangkabau: “N’Djamena”
  • Mingrelian: “ნჯამენა”
  • Moksha: “Нджамэна”
  • Mongolian: “Нжамена”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ندجامينا”
  • Navajo: “Séíbąąhkʼeh”
  • Northern Frisian: “N’Djamena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “N’Djamena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “N’Djamena”
  • Norwegian: “N’Djamena”
  • Novial: “N’Djamena”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “N’Djamena”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܓܡܝܢܐ”
  • Ossetian: “Нджаменæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਜਾਮੀਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “N’Djamena”
  • Persian: “انجامنا”
  • Piemontese: “N’Djamena”
  • Polish: “Ndżamena”
  • Portuguese: “Jamena”
  • Portuguese: “N’Djamena”
  • Pushto: “انجامنا”
  • Quechua: “Yamina”
  • Romanian: “N’Djamena”
  • Russian: “Нджамена”
  • Sardinian: “N’Djamena”
  • Scots: “N’Djamena”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “N’Djamena”
  • Serbian: “Нџамена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “N’Djamena”
  • Shona: “N’Djamena”
  • Sicilian: “N’Djamena”
  • Sindhi: “اينجامينا”
  • Sinhala: “ජමීනා”
  • Sinhala: “නිව්මෙනා”
  • Slovak: “N’Djamena”
  • Slovenian: “N’Djamena”
  • Somali: “Injamiina”
  • Somali: “Nijamiina”
  • South Azerbaijani: “انجامنا”
  • Spanish: “N’Djamena”
  • Spanish: “Yamena”
  • Swahili: “N’Djamena”
  • Swedish: “N’Djamena”
  • Tagalog: “N’Djamena”
  • Tagalog: “NDjamena”
  • Tajik: “Нҷамена”
  • Talysh: “Ncamena”
  • Tamil: “என்ஜமேனா”
  • Tamil: “நிஜாமீனா”
  • Tamil: “ன் ‘டஜமென”
  • Telugu: “ఎన్ జమీనా”
  • Thai: “อึนจาเมนา”
  • Thai: “เอ็นจาเมนา”
  • Tibetan: “ཇ་མི་ན།”
  • Turkish: “Encemine”
  • Turkish: “N’Camena”
  • Turkmen: “Njamena”
  • Udmurt: “Нджамена”
  • Ukrainian: “Нджамена”
  • Upper Sorbian: “N’Djamena”
  • Upper Sorbian: “N’Djamena‎”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ndjamena”
  • Urdu: “انجمینا”
  • Urdu: “نجامینا”
  • Uzbek: “Njamena”
  • Venetian: “N’Djamena”
  • Veps: “Ndžamen”
  • Vietnamese: “N’Djamena”
  • Waray (Philippines): “N’Djamena”
  • Welsh: “N’Djamena”
  • Western Frisian: “N’Djamena”
  • Western Mari: “Нджамена”
  • Western Panjabi: “نجامينا”
  • Western Panjabi: “نجمینا”
  • Wolof: “Njamena”
  • Wu Chinese: “恩贾梅纳”
  • Yiddish: “נ’דזשאמענא”
  • Yoruba: “N’Djamena”
  • Yue Chinese: “恩賈梅納”
  • Zulu: “i-N’Djamena”
  • “Yamena”

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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 Wikivoyage page “N’Djamena”. Photo: Ken Doerr, CC BY 2.0.