Lake Chad, once one of Africa's largest lakes, has lost roughly 90 per cent of its surface area since the 1960s.
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Chad
Republic of Chad ยท ุชุดุงุฏ
Africa
ยท Middle Africa
0Population
1.28Mkmยฒ of land
$709GDP / person
N'DjamenaCapital
- ISO codes
- TD ยท TCD
- Density
- 12 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic, French
- Currency
- Central African CFA franc (XAF)
- Dial code
- +235
- Internet domain
- .td
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 15.1430ยฐ N, 18.6450ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Chadian
- UN region
- Middle Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $11.31B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 6
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By the numbers
How Chad stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
72nd
of 242 ยท 0.21% of world population
Land area
22nd
of 242 ยท 0.86% of world land
GDP per person
223rd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
209th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Chad
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 15,946,876 people, the 72nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.21 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,284,000 kmยฒ, making it the 22nd largest country here - about 5.3 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 12 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is N'Djamena, at 12.12ยฐ N, 15.05ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 989,000.
Shares land borders with 6 countries: Cameroon, Central African Rep., Libya, Niger and Nigeria (and 1 more).
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Ndjamena.
The currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, symbol Fr).
Has 2 official languages: Arabic and French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Ndjamena
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UTC+01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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N'Djamena
Hadjer-Lamis
12.1150ยฐ N, 15.0472ยฐ E
989K
2
Abรฉchรฉ
Ouaddaรฏ
13.8400ยฐ N, 20.8300ยฐ E
158.32K
3
Moundou
Logone Oriental
8.5500ยฐ N, 16.0900ยฐ E
156.71K
Land neighbours
6 countries share a border with Chad.