Top 10 Largest Cities or Towns of Chad
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1.
N'Djamena
2.
Moundou
3.
Sarh
4. Abeche
5. Kelo
6.
Koumra
7.
Pala
8.
Am Timan
9. Mongo
10.
Bongor
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Chad
Chad, officially the
Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in
Central Africa. 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. It is the fifth largest country in
Africa in terms of area.
Chad is divided into multiple regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile
Sudanese savanna zone in the south.
Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in Chad and the second-largest in Africa. N'Djamena, the capital, is the largest city. Chad is home to over
200 different ethnic and linguistic groups.
Arabic and
French are the official languages.
Islam and Christianity are the most widely practiced religions.
Beginning in the
7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the
1st millennium BC, a series of states and empires rose and fell in Chad's Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region.
France conquered the territory by
1920 and incorporated it as part of
French Equatorial Africa. In 1960, Chad obtained independence under the leadership of
François Tombalbaye. Resentment towards his policies in the Muslim north culminated in the eruption of a long-lasting civil war in
1965. In
1979, the rebels conquered the capital and put an end to the south's hegemony. However, the rebel commanders fought amongst themselves until
Hissène Habré defeated his rivals. He was overthrown in
1990 by his general
Idriss Déby. Since
2003, the
Darfur crisis in Sudan has spilt over the border and destabilised the nation, with hundreds of thousands of
Sudanese refugees living in and around camps in eastern Chad.
While many political parties are active, power lies firmly in the hands of
President Déby and his political party, the
Patriotic Salvation Movement. Chad remains plagued by political violence and recurrent attempted coups d'état. Chad is one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world; most inhabitants live in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers. Since 2003, crude oil has become the country's primary source of export earnings, superseding the traditional cotton industry
.
In the 7th millennium BC, ecological conditions in the northern half of Chadian territory favored human settlement, and the region experienced a strong population increase. Some of the most important African archaeological sites are found in Chad, mainly in the
Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region; some date to earlier than
2000 BC.
For more than 2,
000 years, the Chadian
Basin has been inhabited by agricultural and sedentary people. The region became a crossroads of civilisations. The earliest of these were the legendary Sao, known from artifacts and oral histories. The Sao fell to the
Kanem Empire, the first and longest-lasting of the empires that developed in Chad's Sahelian strip by the end of the
1st millennium AD.
The power of
Kanem and its successors was based on control of the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region. These states, at least tacitly Muslim, never extended their control to the southern grasslands except to raid for slaves. In Kanem, about a third of the population were slaves.
French colonial expansion led to
the creation of the Territoire Militaire des Pays et Protectorats du
Tchad in
1900. By 1920, France had secured full control of the colony and incorporated it as part of French Equatorial Africa. French rule in Chad was characterised by an absence of policies to unify the territory and sluggish modernisation compared to other
French colonies.
The French primarily viewed the colony as an unimportant source of untrained labour and raw cotton; France introduced large-scale cotton production in 1929. The colonial administration in Chad was critically understaffed and had to rely on the dregs of the French civil service. Only the
Sara of the south was governed effectively; French presence in the Islamic north and east was nominal. The educational system suffered from this neglect.
After
World War II, France granted Chad the status of overseas territory and its inhabitants the right to elect representatives to the
French National Assembly and a Chadian assembly. The largest political party was the
Chadian Progressive Party (
PPT), based in the southern half of the colony. Chad was granted independence on 11
August 1960 with the PPT's leader, a
Sara people François Tombalbaye, as its first president.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad