Chad Area Code

+235 is the dialing code for Chad.

Chad is located in North Central Africa and lacks coast. A number of military coup regimes have over the years replaced each other in power and have been under constant pressure from armed insurgency movements. Hundreds of thousands of people live in refugee camps. During the 2010 century, the country was also plagued by the Islamist movement Boko Haram. Chad contains oil and good deposits of other minerals.

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Geography and climate

Chad Area Code

Chad is located in the area where the southern border of the Sahara desert turns into steppe and further south into the savanna. The land is three times as large as Sweden.

Chad lacks the coast and is surrounded by mountains in all directions, except in the west. The volcanic rock massif Tibesti in the north reaches over 3,000 meters in height.

The country’s most fertile soils are in the southwest, where wildlife is also richest. The Chari and Logone rivers unite at the capital N’Djamena and then flow into Lake Chad, which has decreased dramatically in size due to decreasing rainfall.

The desert landscape in northern Chad rarely receives rain and can have minus degrees in the mountains at night. The central steppe receives 250–500 mm of precipitation annually. In the south, where the climate is tropical, more rain falls. Agriculture can be carried out there. In the capital N’Djamena, the heat can be extremely depressing. In the southwest, tropical deciduous forest grows.

Country Facts

Geography

Cultivated land 39.6 %
Land area 1284000 km 2

Population and health

Population development 1.89 m
Urban population (Urbanization) 22.5 %
Death rate 14.28 per 1000 residents
Life expectancy: Women 51.03 years
Life expectancy: Men 48.64 years
Birth rate 36.6 births per 1000 residents
HDI index 0.392
Population 11631456
Infant mortality 88.69 deaths / 1000 births

Population Graph Source: Countryaah.com

Energy

Electricity, production 205 million kWh
Energy consumption per resident kg. oil per resident
Natural gas, production million cubic meters
Crude oil, production 4 million tons

Infrastructure

Internet users 2.4 per 100 residents
Mobile subscriptions 46 per 100 residents
Passenger cars 6 per 1000 residents

Business and economics

Unemployment % of the workforce
GDP 2600 per resident
Primary occupations 80 %
Secondary profession 10 %
Tertiary professions 10 %

FACTS – GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE

Surface

1 284 000 km2 (2018)

Time

Swedish

Adjacent country (s)

Libya, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger

Capital with number of residents

Ndjamena 1.26 million

Other major cities

Moundou 141,000, Sarh 107,000, Abéché 78,000 (estimated 2007)

Highest mountain

Emi Koussi (3,415 m asl)

Important rivers

Chari, Logone

Largest lake

Tcadsjön

Average Precipitation / year

N’Djamena 744 mm

Average / day

N’Djamena 24 °C (Jan), 28 °C (July)

2010

December

UN mission leaves the country

The UN mission Minurcat formally completes its mission in Chad (see July 2010).

October

Parts of the UFR put down their weapons

Parts of the rebel alliance of the Resistance Force Union (UFR) are putting down their weapons in exchange for a promise of amnesty. However, a fraction of the UFR opposes the settlement with the government and relocates its bases to the neighboring Central African Republic. UFR suffered heavy losses in 2009 and lost around 80 percent of its warriors.

September

The parliamentary elections are postponed

The government and the opposition agree to postpone the parliamentary elections until February 2011 in order to bring all the preparations required.

July

Chad fails to arrest Sudan’s president

Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir visits Chad who fails to arrest him despite al-Bashir being called by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity and Chad belongs to the countries that have joined the ICC.

Sudan is running out of rebel movements

Sudan asks leaders of the most important Chadian rebel movements to leave Sudanese territory.

Parliament is being expanded

A new law is enacted which will increase the number of seats in Parliament from 155 to 188. The aim is to smooth out previous imbalances between different regions.

May

UN mission is taken home from Chad

The UN Security Council decides that the UN mission Minurcat (United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad) should be withdrawn in two steps and that all personnel should be out of Chad on December 31, 2010.

April

Many dead in fighting in the east

The government states that over 100 rebels have been killed in two war outbreaks in eastern Chad. At the same time, the rebels claim that the government side has suffered heavy losses.

March

Bad harvests cause food shortages

Reports say that nearly two million Chadians have been suffering from food shortages due to poor harvests.

The government is leaving

Abbas resigns due to corruption scandals revealed in October 2009. Emmanuel Nadingar becomes new head of government. Nearly half of the ministers are replaced.

January

Relations with Sudan are improving

Chad and Sudan enter into an agreement to normalize relations, open the border and establish a common border control force. For the first time in years, an agreement between Chad and Sudan will have an effect (compare Foreign Policy and Defense); Border surveillance is tightened and the two countries cease their support to neighboring rebels.

The parliamentary elections are postponed

The Election Commission announces that the parliamentary elections that would have been held in 2009 have now been postponed further, until November 2010.