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This short boundary consists of a single straight line connecting Chad and Nigeria's tripoints with Niger and Cameroon. [2] The entire boundary formerly lay entirely in Lake Chad, however given the dramatic decrease in the lake's size over the past several decades most of the boundary now run across land, swamp and intermittent exposed islands in the lake.
Chad's relationship with Nigeria was not without its strains, however. [1] Beginning in the late 1970s, clashes occurred around Lake Chad, where both countries hoped to exploit oil reserves. [1] Both also sought to defuse these confrontations, first by establishing joint patrols and a commission to demarcate the boundary across the lake more ...
Chad has a population of 16 million, of which 1.6 million live in the capital and largest city of N'Djamena. With a total area of around 1,300,000 km 2 (500,000 sq mi), [ 8 ] Chad is the fifth-largest country in Africa and the twentieth largest nation by area in the world.
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
The Bornu Empire (1380s–1893) was a state in what is now northeastern Nigeria, in time becoming even larger than Kanem, incorporating areas that are today parts of Chad, Niger and Cameroon. [4] The early history of the empire is mainly known from the Royal Chronicle, or Girgam, discovered in 1851 by the German traveller Heinrich Barth.
Lake Chad (Arabic: بحيرة تشاد, Kanuri: Sádǝ, French: Lac Tchad) is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area in excess of 1,000,000 km 2 (390,000 sq mi). It is an important wetland ecosystem in West ...
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad repatriated 157 of its citizens who had been detained in neighbouring Libya on Tuesday, working in partnership with the United Nations' International Organization for ...
The location of Chad An enlargeable map of Chad. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Chad: Chad – landlocked country in Central Africa. [1] It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west.