Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Religions in Chad by region; Islam (green: mostly, light green: plurality), Christianity and traditional religions (blue: mostly, light blue plurality). Christianity arrived in Chad with the French, at the end of the 19th century. [5] Among Chadian Christians, 22.8% profess to be Catholic and 17.9% profess to be Protestant.
Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. [9] It is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Islam (55.1%) and Christianity (41.1%) are the main religions practiced in Chad. [2] [10]
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.
Map of prevailing religion by country Map of relative importance of religion by country, ... Chad: 11,230,000 4,559,380 40.60 9,200,000 58.00 280,750 2.50 0 0.00 0
Similarly, in the mid-nineteenth century, the Sanusiyya brotherhood was founded in Libya, which benefited from economic and political influence in the Lake Chad Basin around 1900. [4] An Islamic revival movement, feared by some French, led by Sanusi fanatics, Chadian adherents, limited to the Awlad Sulayman Arabs and the Toubou of eastern ...
The country has an area of 496,000 square miles (1,280,000 km 2) and a population of 18,278,568 according to the UN estimate for 2023.. According to estimates in 2014–15, 52.1% of the population is Muslim (mainly Sufi Tijaniyah), 23.9% is Protestant, 20% is Roman Catholic, 0.3% is animist, 0.2% are 'other Christian', 2.8% have no religion, and 0.7% did not specify what their beliefs were.
By RYAN GORMAN The majority of the world's religions are concentrated in only a handful of countries, a new report has revealed. Half of the planet's population lives in only six nations, and ...
Islamization began as early as the 8th century and was mostly complete by the 11th, when Islam became the official religion of the Kanem–Bornu Empire.The Shuwa established an economy of slave trade across the Sudan region, and in Chad there was a tradition of slave raids under the Ouaddai and Baguirmi which persisted well into the 20th century.