Tourism in Chad

Capital: N'Djamena
Language: French, Arabic

  Area: 1,284,000 km 2.


Population: 11.7806 million

Currency: CHF Q P A Central Africa



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Chad (French: Tchad) officially the Republic of Chad, a country in central Africa is located in the Sahara, six neighboring states and Attal on-board external port only Lake Chad. Bordered by Libya to the north, and from the east of Sudan, in the south, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger in the west. Situated in the north Tibesti Mountains, the largest mountain range in the desert. Chad was formerly part of French Equatorial Africa.

Republic of Chad is located in the center of the African continent and is bordered to the east of Sudan, and Libya to the north and to the west, Niger and Cameroon and Nigeria to the south by the Central African Republic. Chad is a landlocked country do not look down on a sea, ocean, or external, and penetrates Chad Mosmean two rivers Logone and Chari meet in the capital N'djamena and pour into Lake Chad in the north west of the capital N'Djamena.

Most of the country consists of desert land is dry, and rocky plateaus. The mountain range in the north-west Tbsta Chad has the highest summit in the country, which is the summit of Mount EMI Kosi. The height of the mountain 3,415 m above sea level. And isolate a large area of ​​savannah in the center of the vast desert of Chad in the north, which forms part of the Sahara Desert for a small area is very fertile in the south.

Earth's surface Chadian a reflection of the building blocks of tectonic constituent part of East Africa, which consists of an indoor huge occupies the concave (Alsankliani) Chad, and parts of the pillars of the old of the plate African surrounding basin of views north, east and south in addition to the pillars of Niger, located in the west beyond the borders of the Republic of Chad. Accordingly, the spread in Chad rocks dating back to the era of pre-Cambrian rocks in addition to impulsivity and sedimentary rocks of the second geological eras in the country's north and east. The rocks are the most widespread belonging to the Quaternary geology, mostly of sand Almgsheh land Chadian Interior and Western Chari River Basin and Lake Chad.

Limited transportation network in Chad on the road network of the wild only cars, and on the river and air transport. Most of the roads wild-mile more than 30,000 km unpaved and impassable in the rainy season, and the temple which is not more than 13 thousand km, of which four roads linking neighboring countries and ending in the ports of the Atlantic. And rivers and provide a cheap means of transport in the south of Chad, and reaches only navigable throughout the year is the riverbed between the buyer and Njamina Lake Chad. Chad owns national airline believes a modest transport and travel between the capital cities and a number of regular trips, and in the country about 67 airstrip, four of which are equipped to receive large aircraft, the most important international airport in the capital