| Republic of Chad جمهورية تشاد (Arabic) Jumhūriyyat Tšād République du Tchad (French) | ||||||
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| Motto: "Unité, Travail, Progrès" (French) الاتحاد، العمل، التقدم (Arabic) "Unity, Work, Progress" |
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| Anthem: "La Tchadienne" (French) نشيد تشاد الوطني (Arabic) "The Song of Chad" |
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| Capital (and largest city) | N'Djamena | |||||
| Official languages | Arabic • French | |||||
| Religion | 55.1% Islam 42.1% Christianity 1.4% no religion 1.3% Animism 0.1% others |
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| Demonym | Chadian | |||||
| Government | Unitary semi-presidential republic under a hereditary dictatorship | |||||
| - | President | Mahamat Deby | ||||
| - | Prime Minister | Allamaye Halina | ||||
| Legislature | Bicameral parliament | |||||
| - | Upper house | Senate | ||||
| - | Lower house | National Assembly | ||||
| Independence | from France | |||||
| - | Colony established | 5 September 1900 | ||||
| - | Colony established | 28 November 1958 | ||||
| - | Sovereign state | 11 August 1960 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 1,289,000 km2 497,686 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||||
| - | estimate | 19,093,595 | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2023 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $32.375 billion | ||||
| - | Per capita | $1,806 | ||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2023 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $12.596 billion | ||||
| - | Per capita | $702 | ||||
| Gini (2022) | 37.4 | |||||
| HDI (2023) | 0.416 | |||||
| Currency | Central African CFA franc (XAF) |
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| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (WAT) | |||||
| Drives on the | Right | |||||
| Internet TLD | .td | |||||
| Calling code | +235 | |||||
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Darfur to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the southwest, Nigeria to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west. Chad has a population of 19 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 km2 (500,000 sq mi), Chad is the fifth-largest country in Africa and the twentieth largest nation by area.
