Chad, officially the Republic of Chad ( '; "Republic of the 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 has several regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanian 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. The capital N'Djamena is the largest city.

Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. Chad is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. The religions of Chad are Islam (at 55%), followed by Christianity (at 40%).

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 had risen and fallen 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 Francois 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 Hissene Habre defeated his rivals. He was overthrown in 1990 by his general Idriss Deby. 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. Unsustainable high birth rates and a lack of agriculture let the country persist in poverty.

Answer this series of questions:

1. What is Chad named after?
2. What record does it hold?
3. When did France conquer the area?
4. What did they merge it with?
5. When did Chad become it's own country?
6. Who was in control at that time?
7. When was Habre tossed out?
8. By whom?
9. How many official languages are spoken in Chad?
10. Is one English?
11. Can you name one?
12. How much of the population is Christian?
13. What's the other primary religion?
14. Is that the religion of more than half of the people?
15. Is all of Chad a desert?
16. What major emergency is taking place that's destabilizing the nation?
17. How many refugees are living in eastern Chad?
18. Where are they from?
19. Do they live in houses there?
20. What's one thing that's keeping Chad in poverty?
1. Lake Chad
2. second-largest in Africa
3. 1920
4. French Equatorial Africa
5. 1960
6. Francois Tombalbaye
7. 1990
8. Idriss Deby
9. Two
10. no
11. Arabic
12. 40%
13. Islam
14. yes
15. no
16. Darfur crisis
17. hundreds of thousands
18. Sudan
19. no in camps
20. high birth rates