Chad
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| Demonym | Chadian | |||
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| - | Total | 1,284,000 km2 (21st) Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",". sq mi |
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| Currency | Central African CFA franc | |||
Chad (French: Tchad; Arabic: تشاد), officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. The capital is N'Djamena. (A capital is the city where the government is.) It was owned by the French until 1960.[1] It suffers from poverty, illness, drought, and armed conflicts. To the north is Libya, to the south is the Central African Republic, to the east is Sudan, and to the west are Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger. The population of Chad is about 11,000,000 people.
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