Chad

Chad (: تشاد, : Tšād, pronounced ; : Tchad, pronounced ), officially the Republic of Chad, is a at the crossroads of and . It is bordered by Libya to , Sudan to , the Central African Republic to , Cameroon to , Nigeria to (at ), and Niger to . Chad has a population of 18 million, of which 1.6 million live in the of , the and of the republic.
Chad has several regions: a zone in the , an arid belt in the and a more fertile zone in the . , after which the country is named, is the second-largest in . Chad's official languages are and . It is home to over 200 different and . (55.1%) and (41.1%) are the main .
Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium AD, a series of states and empires had risen and fallen in Chad's Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the routes that passed through the region. France conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of . In 1960, Chad obtained independence under the leadership of . Resentment towards his policies in the Muslim north culminated in the eruption of a long-lasting in 1965. In 1979 conquered the capital and put an end to the South's hegemony. The rebel commanders then fought amongst themselves until defeated his rivals. The erupted in 1978 by the Libyan invasion which stopped in 1987 with a French military intervention (). Hissène Habré was overthrown in turn in 1990 by his general . With French support, a modernization of the was initiated in 1991. From 2003, the in Sudan spilt over the border and . Already poor, the nation and people struggled to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of who live in and around camps in eastern Chad.
While many political parties participated in Chad's legislature, the , power laid firmly in the hands of the during the presidency of Idriss Déby, whose rule was described as . After President Déby was killed by in April 2021, the led by his son assumed control of the government and dissolved the Assembly. Chad remains plagued by and recurrent attempted .
Chad ranks the 3rd lowest in the , with 0.398 in 2019, and a facing the effects of being one of the and countries in the world.
Most of its inhabitants live in poverty as . Since 2003 crude oil has become the country's primary source of export earnings, superseding the traditional cotton industry. Chad has a poor , with frequent abuses such as arbitrary imprisonment, extrajudicial killings, and limits on civil liberties by both security forces and armed militias.
== Mappers from Chad ==
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== List of fictive nations located in Chad ==
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== Future ==
=== Zarexian Mapper ===
I don't think I there is a need for me to comment on the situation in Chad, the facts speak for themselves. In order for things to improve at all, it is essential that France no longer exploits its former colonies in , stage coups to establish friendly dictators who only harm the country. Unfortunately, the on the Grand Nation is very large, which is why I consider Chad a .
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