The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in north-central Africa.
It is Africa's fifth largest country and is more than twice as big as France,
which once ruled it as a colony. The land consists largely of desert and rocky
plateaux and most people live in the fertile south.
Southern Chad is crossed by rivers that flow into Lake Chad on the western border. Beyond a large depression, north-east of Lake Chad, are the Tibesti Mountains which rise steeply from the sands of the Sahara Desert.
Chad straddles two worlds. The north is populated by Muslim Arabs and Berber peoples,
while black Africans, who follow traditional beliefs or who have converted to
Christianity, live in the south.
Hit by drought and civil war, Chad is one of the world's poorest countries. The country has few natural resources and few manufacturing industries.
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