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Chad
Capital: N'Djamena
- Lake Chad covered about 330,000 square kilometres roughly 7,000 years ago, but today it covers about 17,806 square kilometres and changes size with the seasons.
- At about 1.28 million square kilometres, Chad is Africa's fifth-largest country, with roughly 20 million people, or about 15 people per square kilometre.
- Emi Koussi, a dormant volcano in the Tibesti Mountains, is Chad's highest point at about 3,414 metres.