Chad is a landlocked country in north-central Africa. The terrain is that of a shallow basin that rises gradually from the Lake Chad area in the west and is rimmed by mountains to the north, east, and south.

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Where is Chad? The north-central African country of Chad lies in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres of the Earth. It is a landlocked country that shares its land boundaries with six countries. These are Libya, Sudan, and the Central African Republic to the north, east, and south respectively.

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Chad is a vast, ethnically diverse African country. It gained independence from France in 1960 after a sixty-year colonial period rule that did not create a meaningful national unity.

A virtual guide to Chad, a landlocked country in northern Central Africa, bordered by Cameroon in south west, by the Central African Republic in south, by Libya in north, by Niger in west, by North Sudan in east and it has a border with Nigeria across Lake Chad.