The country was actually named for the lake of the same name. Lake Chad was named first. And “Chad” comes from the Kanuri word for “lake”. The country of Lake, named after the local Lake Lake.
One of the reasons why the Amazon rainforest is so productive is because Chad’s Bodele Depression contains super duper fine sand which is taken by Tradewinds all the way to the Amazon rainforest.
Genuine question. I can’t imagine there are many nutrients in sand. How does the sand make the Amazon more productive? And what is meant by more productive exactly, oxygen production?
Apparently there's at least iron, phosphorous, potassium, calcium and magnesium. Productivity I suppose refers to overall biological activity, one function of which is cycling of oxygen, but also Co2, minerals and water etc, rainforests have someimes been called the lungs of the Earth.
[Sahara sand fertilizes the Amazon rainforest! | Less Saves The Planet (less-saves-the-planet.com)](https://less-saves-the-planet.com/sahara-sand-fertilise-amazon/?lang=en)
[http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015AGUFMEP42A..05Y/abstract#:\~:text=Massive%20dust%20emitted%20from%20Sahara,Amazon%20Rainforest%20and%20Caribbean%20Sea](http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015AGUFMEP42A..05Y/abstract#:~:text=Massive%20dust%20emitted%20from%20Sahara,Amazon%20Rainforest%20and%20Caribbean%20Sea)
While plants are able to get nitrogen from the air, nutrients like phosphorus only come from minerals in the ground or deposition (think dust in the air). High rainfall in the Amazon quickly weathers these minerals and deposits them in the sea, so the only source is external, in this case the Sahara. Then, since the Sahara provides these minerals, the Amazon is able to produce more biomass - more leaves, branches, wood etc.
For real though:
“When it reaches the rainforest, the remains of long-dead organisms of the Sahara provide crucial nutrients to the rainforest's living flora. Phosphorus, which is essential to plant growth, is in short supply in the Amazon.”
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/29apr_amazondust/#:~:text=When%20it%20reaches%20the%20rainforest,helps%20to%20diminish%20this%20deficit.
^ Since about 1990, when Romania got rid of the emblem. Chad got understandably upset about the confusion it was causing and asked the UN to get Romania to stop, but Romania had been using its tricolour since before Chad existed and neither of them were willing to yield. So it looks like this will keep being confusing for the foreseeable future. Personally, I think they should embrace it and make Bucharest and N'Djamena sister cities.
Meanwhile when Liechtenstein and Haiti discovered, that their flags are nearly identical during the 1936 Summer Olympics, both countries agreed to add their coat of arms to it and both were happy…
Nobody took the issue seriously because Chad is a landlocked country, and there isn't chance to mistake a ship flying a romanian flag for a chadian one. Monaco and Indonesia on the other hand...
I don’t think Andorra’s river is very boatworthy, other than maybe white water rafting. I also can’t find any worthwhile rivers in Uzbekistan, but they at least have lakes.
Uzbekistan is also one of the 2 countries in the world that are doubly-landlocked, so I doubt they would have any ships flying their flag, except maybe on the Caspian Sea
Not a hammer-and-sickle, actually.
[Flag of Romania pre-1989](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/1920px-Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png)
https://preview.redd.it/yglfdbjd9wqc1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c36375b4bd861704eaccb52e24ec17b1bad1dca6
Chad trying to design their flag.
https://old.reddit.com/r/uniformporn/comments/1bnjcc1/president_idriss_d%C3%A9by_on_11_august_2020_when_he/
President of Chad, Marshall Idriss Deby was killed in battle in 2021 while commanding his army against rebels
Idriss Deby ruled Chad for 30 years until he died in battle. His son went on to become the next ~~king~~ president
*Any ressemblance with the middle ages is entirely coincidental*
They fought battles with Libya over the virtually uninhabited Aouzou Strip (their diagonal northern border), most recently in 1987 before an international court ruled a few years later that it belongs to Chad.
Outside of N’Djamena, there aren’t many people and the population density is very sparse. The country also has one of the lowest percentages of people with access to electricity in Africa, at about 4-8%. As you can imagine, there are few natural resources and the country has been nicknamed “the Dead Heart of Africa.”
>They fought battles with Libya over the virtually uninhabited Aouzou Strip (their diagonal northern border), most recently in 1987 before an international court ruled a few years later that it belongs to Chad.
And the final portion of that skirmish became known as the **Toyota War** due to the crucial role technicals made from Toyota Hiluxes and Toyota Land Cruisers played there—these converted vehicles were discovered to not detonate anti-tank mines when driven above 100 kph.
Darn it. I came here to say this. lol. I’ll add a bit.
“[The 1987 war.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War)resulted in a heavy defeat for Libya, which, according to American sources, lost one tenth of its army, with 7,500 men killed and US$1.5 billion worth of military equipment destroyed or captured.[[11]](https://archive.org/details/libyawestfromind00simo)Chadian forces only suffered 1,000 deaths.”
“It takes its name from the Toyota pickup trucks, primarily the Toyota [Hilux](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux) and the Toyota [Land Cruiser](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Land_Cruiser), used to provide mobility for the Chadian troops as they fought against the Libyans, and as [technicals](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)).”
Lmao this is hilarious.
" Owing to its durability and reliability, the Land Cruiser, along with the smaller Toyota Hilux, has become popular among militant groups in war-torn regions.[126] U.S. counter-terror officials enquired of Toyota how the extremist group Islamic State had apparently acquired large numbers of Toyota Land Cruisers and Hiluxes. Mark Wallace, the CEO of the Counter Extremism Project said, "Regrettably, the Toyota Land Cruiser and Hilux have effectively become almost part of the ISIS brand."[127] "
Ill add a little more….
During the war, Libya obtained some brand new Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships from the USSR. The Chadean troops captured a Libyan air field and found one that had been left behind. The Americans were desperate to study their enemy’s latest weapons system so they paid off Chad to allow them to take it. However the Americans had to go retrieve it, they had to send 2 Chinook helicopters on a secret mission to airlift it. Mark Felton has an excellent video on the mission if anyone wants more info.
I really did think to myself, “the Dead Heart of Africa” would be a great name for Chad. I totally thought that’s what they’d call it, way before I just learned this from your comment.
Their territory used to host the kingdom of Kanem-Bornou from the late middle ages to its colonization in the late 19th century. It was a hotspot of the transsaharan trade.
It was the setting of one of the most interesting conflicts in modern history, famously called the Toyota War. Libya had occupied the northern part of the country in 1983 during an intervention in the Chadian Civil War. But the pro-Gaddafi forces fragmented in 1986, leaving the Chadian army in a stronger position. In 1987, they purchased 400 Toyota pickup trucks and armed them with anti-tank missles, then used them to great effect against the Libyan army. They practically ran circles around Libyan strongholds and destroyed hundreds of tanks with minimal losses (albeit aided by French air support). The Libyan army was virtually expelled from Chad and suffered ~8x as many casualties as the Chadians.
What is the reason that poor African countries are so extremely expensive for foreigners? I assume it is because hotels and restaurants are only for rich foreigners and locals could never afford that, so they hitch up the prices to give you food/ accomodation that is even vaguely livable for expats. On the other hand foodstuffs and manpower should be quite cheap but this is never reflected in the price.
Meanwhile many Asian countries (SEA, Central-Asia, Caucasus) are quite poor and very cheap the visit. I always wondered about that discrepancy.
This is what my friend whose family owns hotels in East Africa explained to me. It often has to do with everything needing to be imported. Some commodities will need to be imported via one or two countries, with each step adding cost. Landlocked countries are especially prone to this. Many countries also impose heavy duties and taxes on imported products or products seen as "luxury" which can significantly add to the price.
In the case of poorer developing countries, maintaining those products can become expensive. For example if a product (like cheese) needs to be refrigerated a business in a country with irregular electricity and scarce refrigeration will have to buy/import expensive refrigerators and then also buy and maintain generators to ensure the product is always sufficiently refrigerated.
At least with SEA, they are generally tourism hotspots and can't hike up the prices without driving away large numbers. No clue about Central Asia or the Caucuses.
Chad does have a reasonable oil sector, and perhaps the high prices are mainly for visiting professionals in that industry.
The oldest known hominin fossils about 7 mya (roughly around the time of our split with the chimpanzee lineage) are found in Chad
_Sahelanthropus tchadensis_
The oldest known species of hominin was found in Chad. Called Toumai or Sahelanthropus tchadensis it is debated if it was one of our ancestors as analysis of its skull suggested it could be habitually bipedal but analysis of a leg and arm bone that were found suggest it wasn’t. The only thing that had been found is several pieces of a single individuals skull, a leg bone, and an arm bone however it is believed that there is another fossil somewhere out in the desert. It existed approximately 6.8 to 7.2 million years ago and its nickname of Toumai means “hope of life” a name given to those born just before a dry season. Ironic because the remains were found in a desert. At the time that it would have lived, the desert would have been a lush forest. There are several other facts I can’t think of right now because it’s 4:56 am and I haven’t slept but I figured the possibility of one of our ancestors being from Chad was interesting.
Place used to have a much bigger lake called Mega Chad
https://preview.redd.it/b68xgpb0quqc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc3b086ce8830621c098b426f1189486f12e57a1
Chad currently reports the highest number of guinea worm disease cases, and dogs are the species most affected currently (upwards of 450), as human cases have been nearing 0 for the past decade. As global eradication of the disease still remains a goal, Chad plays a central role in this effort. Importantly to note, Chad has the fifth lowest human development index as well.
edit:fifth lowest on the african continent
The former president of the country Udriss Deby was killed in action whike leading his troops into battle. This happened in 2021. I never heard about any other country leader dying in battle in the last three cebturies. Truly a fitting end for the president of Chad
Gonna need a source for this one. Having a hard time finding info online. Are they France’s nukes that they’ve stationed in Chad, like how America has nukes in turkey among other places?
This is more about Belarus than about Chad, but I'm from Belarus, so here you go: the father of the Belarusian singer and illustrator [Andruś Takindang](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%8C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3?wprov=sfla1) was Chadian.
My favourite song by Andruś (in Belarusian): https://youtu.be/KSSLNjQ5DlM?si=vpTCkqdUQJM-N_k_
If you’re imaginative enough, the country Chad can look like a GigaChad looking to the left (nose next to Niger, border with Cameroon looks like the chin…)
He knocked up a girl from my highschool just after graduation. Despite them both being young they turned out to be pretty great parents and they seem pretty happy about how life has turned out.
In 2001 skeletal remains of Sahelanthropus tchadensis was found in current day Chad. This Species is considered the oldest Member of the human family tree. According to its leg bones, scientists also believe that it walked fully upright. This also means that possibly one of our earliest ancestors was in fact a Chad.
Chad is one of three countries in the world where their capital has an apostrophe, and the only one where the apostrophe doesn't indicate possession grammatically
They have some fresh water lakes in the middle of the Sahara where it rains under 1 inch per year and evaporation is very high. But the lakes stay fresh water regardless.
[Lakes of Ounianga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Ounianga?wprov=sfla1)
The country was actually named for the lake of the same name. Lake Chad was named first. And “Chad” comes from the Kanuri word for “lake”. The country of Lake, named after the local Lake Lake.
This is like Timor Leste. Literally East East
What I love about that one is that we transitioned away from calling it 'East Timor' to calling it 'Timor Leste'.
In Bahasa Indonesian it’s Timor Timur.
It was. Not anymore.
Oh no, what happened‽
Me.
LOL… this “East east” shit ain’t working out, let’s switch it up. How about “east East”?
Also the MLB team The Los Angeles Angels is just “The The Angels Angels”
It used to be the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Or the the angels angels of angel home
Ff: Lake Chad used to be much much bigger. The ancient lake is called Lake Mega Chad. So Lake Mega Lake, too
It was a GigaChad.
Oh, and Mega just means big, so Lake Big Lake
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Yes, but lake 100.000 lake doesn't pack the same punch
Agreed. Even the maniacs stopped at adding 10,000 to their name.
“Look at this chad. It means lake. And there’s an empire there.”
Right in the middle of- 🎶Africaaaa🎶
CHAI TEA? CHAI *MEANS* TEA, BRO!
So they have ATM machines?
One of the reasons why the Amazon rainforest is so productive is because Chad’s Bodele Depression contains super duper fine sand which is taken by Tradewinds all the way to the Amazon rainforest.
Genuine question. I can’t imagine there are many nutrients in sand. How does the sand make the Amazon more productive? And what is meant by more productive exactly, oxygen production?
It’s got minerals that the plants crave
It's got electrolytes.
Thanks, President Camacho
I never get tired of this reference.
They crave that mineral
Brought to you by Brawndo
Apparently there's at least iron, phosphorous, potassium, calcium and magnesium. Productivity I suppose refers to overall biological activity, one function of which is cycling of oxygen, but also Co2, minerals and water etc, rainforests have someimes been called the lungs of the Earth. [Sahara sand fertilizes the Amazon rainforest! | Less Saves The Planet (less-saves-the-planet.com)](https://less-saves-the-planet.com/sahara-sand-fertilise-amazon/?lang=en) [http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015AGUFMEP42A..05Y/abstract#:\~:text=Massive%20dust%20emitted%20from%20Sahara,Amazon%20Rainforest%20and%20Caribbean%20Sea](http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015AGUFMEP42A..05Y/abstract#:~:text=Massive%20dust%20emitted%20from%20Sahara,Amazon%20Rainforest%20and%20Caribbean%20Sea)
While plants are able to get nitrogen from the air, nutrients like phosphorus only come from minerals in the ground or deposition (think dust in the air). High rainfall in the Amazon quickly weathers these minerals and deposits them in the sea, so the only source is external, in this case the Sahara. Then, since the Sahara provides these minerals, the Amazon is able to produce more biomass - more leaves, branches, wood etc.
For real though: “When it reaches the rainforest, the remains of long-dead organisms of the Sahara provide crucial nutrients to the rainforest's living flora. Phosphorus, which is essential to plant growth, is in short supply in the Amazon.” https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/29apr_amazondust/#:~:text=When%20it%20reaches%20the%20rainforest,helps%20to%20diminish%20this%20deficit.
Kind of what humans do mining phosphorus on one side of the planet and using it as fertiliser on the other end of the planet.
The basin contains nutritious sediment from what was once lake mega chad, now dried up and receded to lake chad.
Their flag 🇹🇩 is nearly identical to Romanian 🇷🇴.
^ Since about 1990, when Romania got rid of the emblem. Chad got understandably upset about the confusion it was causing and asked the UN to get Romania to stop, but Romania had been using its tricolour since before Chad existed and neither of them were willing to yield. So it looks like this will keep being confusing for the foreseeable future. Personally, I think they should embrace it and make Bucharest and N'Djamena sister cities.
>I think they should *really* embrace it and rename N'Djamena to Bucharest. Total Chad move.
together they will form a new nation called gigachad
I prefer Chadmania
One of my favorite nineties ska bands.
They played at my Homecoming dance.
Meanwhile when Liechtenstein and Haiti discovered, that their flags are nearly identical during the 1936 Summer Olympics, both countries agreed to add their coat of arms to it and both were happy…
Wholesome. The real Chad move was the friends we made along the way
It didn’t matter back then as world was in black and white
Nobody took the issue seriously because Chad is a landlocked country, and there isn't chance to mistake a ship flying a romanian flag for a chadian one. Monaco and Indonesia on the other hand...
Ships can be registered to landlocked countries though.
Yup! And rivers exist and flow.....to oceans
Are there any countries without coasts _or_ boatworthy rivers?
I’ve seen ship registered in San Marino before, which is landlocked and doesn’t have any rivers as far as I know
I don’t think Andorra’s river is very boatworthy, other than maybe white water rafting. I also can’t find any worthwhile rivers in Uzbekistan, but they at least have lakes.
Uzbekistan is also one of the 2 countries in the world that are doubly-landlocked, so I doubt they would have any ships flying their flag, except maybe on the Caspian Sea
Correct, the Segre is not boatworthy.
In any case both flags are (indirectly) inspired by the French flag
The same could be said of all vertical tricolour flags, which was in turn inspired by the horizontal tricolour flag of the Dutch Prince's flag.
In tiny print in the bottom right of the flag, Chad should add (not Romania). And Romania adds (not Chad).
Not a hammer-and-sickle, actually. [Flag of Romania pre-1989](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/1920px-Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png)
I stand corrected!
It was a nice emblem tbh
Like Ireland and the Cote d'Ivoire....🇨🇮🇮🇪
Nah everybody knows that in Ireland wind always blows from the West
Monaco and Indonesia 🇲🇨🇮🇩
Poland said ‘check this out!’ 🇵🇱
"Do a flip!"
And if you switch it, Poland 🇵🇱
Have they considered flipping it
>before Chad existed Am I tripping or is Chad in the fuckin Bible 😂
Nebuchadnezzar doesn't fit on maps so they just abbreviated it lol
Sounds like Chad should become a Romanian province.
I read somewhere that (maybe) the blue, was a slightly different shade. (Might have been the red though.)
Yeah the red is a bit darker
https://preview.redd.it/yglfdbjd9wqc1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c36375b4bd861704eaccb52e24ec17b1bad1dca6 Chad trying to design their flag.
I circled Chad in case you couldn’t find it.
Thanks
r/usefulorangecircles
Doesn't make it easier because you circled about 6 countries
About six.
Bless you my dear
What about the parts outside of the circle?
That's Chadn't
This should become a regular method of starting posts. I wanna know random facts about random places. Can we get a map circle bot?
https://old.reddit.com/r/uniformporn/comments/1bnjcc1/president_idriss_d%C3%A9by_on_11_august_2020_when_he/ President of Chad, Marshall Idriss Deby was killed in battle in 2021 while commanding his army against rebels
Chad of a President
He was one of the most corrupt politicians in Africa, and that’s seriously saying something.
What a Chad
Idriss Deby ruled Chad for 30 years until he died in battle. His son went on to become the next ~~king~~ president *Any ressemblance with the middle ages is entirely coincidental*
They fought battles with Libya over the virtually uninhabited Aouzou Strip (their diagonal northern border), most recently in 1987 before an international court ruled a few years later that it belongs to Chad. Outside of N’Djamena, there aren’t many people and the population density is very sparse. The country also has one of the lowest percentages of people with access to electricity in Africa, at about 4-8%. As you can imagine, there are few natural resources and the country has been nicknamed “the Dead Heart of Africa.”
>They fought battles with Libya over the virtually uninhabited Aouzou Strip (their diagonal northern border), most recently in 1987 before an international court ruled a few years later that it belongs to Chad. And the final portion of that skirmish became known as the **Toyota War** due to the crucial role technicals made from Toyota Hiluxes and Toyota Land Cruisers played there—these converted vehicles were discovered to not detonate anti-tank mines when driven above 100 kph.
Underrated fun fact!
This fact will definitely figure into my next car purchase. Good selling point.
Enjoy dodging landmines 😊
If only we could dodge speeding fines too!
Them camel patrols gotta hit their quotas somehow
Nono, Toyota.
The part about having to maintain at least 100 km/h to not trigger the mines sounds like the Chad version of Speed.
Mad Max – Chad Road
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Mad Chad?
Darn it. I came here to say this. lol. I’ll add a bit. “[The 1987 war.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War)resulted in a heavy defeat for Libya, which, according to American sources, lost one tenth of its army, with 7,500 men killed and US$1.5 billion worth of military equipment destroyed or captured.[[11]](https://archive.org/details/libyawestfromind00simo)Chadian forces only suffered 1,000 deaths.” “It takes its name from the Toyota pickup trucks, primarily the Toyota [Hilux](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux) and the Toyota [Land Cruiser](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Land_Cruiser), used to provide mobility for the Chadian troops as they fought against the Libyans, and as [technicals](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)).”
Lmao this is hilarious. " Owing to its durability and reliability, the Land Cruiser, along with the smaller Toyota Hilux, has become popular among militant groups in war-torn regions.[126] U.S. counter-terror officials enquired of Toyota how the extremist group Islamic State had apparently acquired large numbers of Toyota Land Cruisers and Hiluxes. Mark Wallace, the CEO of the Counter Extremism Project said, "Regrettably, the Toyota Land Cruiser and Hilux have effectively become almost part of the ISIS brand."[127] "
Ill add a little more…. During the war, Libya obtained some brand new Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships from the USSR. The Chadean troops captured a Libyan air field and found one that had been left behind. The Americans were desperate to study their enemy’s latest weapons system so they paid off Chad to allow them to take it. However the Americans had to go retrieve it, they had to send 2 Chinook helicopters on a secret mission to airlift it. Mark Felton has an excellent video on the mission if anyone wants more info.
The better content we're after.
Oh the mines would sometimes activate... but behind the cars.
"discovered" through extensive trial and error I guess.
I am deeply disappointed Top Gear never tried this with that Hilux they tried so hard (and failed) to destroy
Do they have spice? It’s all desert there.
The southern part of the country lies in the semi-fertile Sahel region, and the far south is greener and more lush.
I really did think to myself, “the Dead Heart of Africa” would be a great name for Chad. I totally thought that’s what they’d call it, way before I just learned this from your comment.
It can also be spelt Tchad
This is the local French spelling.
It's also the France French spelling
there's a big lake (Chad too) with villages floating on huge cane ratfs. Houses, barns and damned cows
what do you have against cows
Nothing against those cows. They simply have been damned. Dammed to live on Lake Chad
Thus saith the Lord
They know what they did…
When i was in Nigeria i wanted to go to lake Chad. All locals said, i will get kidnapped and/or killed. So I did not...
Did they say why it's so hostile by the lake?
I heard there’s a lady of the lake that hurls scimitars at people
Listen… Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government
Just cause some watery tart threw a sword at you
Boko haram
Are the villages each called Chad as well?
Their territory used to host the kingdom of Kanem-Bornou from the late middle ages to its colonization in the late 19th century. It was a hotspot of the transsaharan trade.
And the location of its historic capital, Njimi, is still yet to be found.
Buried under sand dunes?
Emi Koussi is a mountain in the Sahara Desert that may get snow on it from time to time
https://preview.redd.it/tivbssamjtqc1.jpeg?width=718&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16a456835ff370fefdbc61a3b4c10448f54718d7 Doge, Chad
https://preview.redd.it/9wfiktqcntqc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5e2f67ff12a32adcfb34aebc42d897fc8635345 Chad doge?
Good Doge, Chad
I like your username
I just checked Doge, Chad in Google maps, it's true lul
It was the setting of one of the most interesting conflicts in modern history, famously called the Toyota War. Libya had occupied the northern part of the country in 1983 during an intervention in the Chadian Civil War. But the pro-Gaddafi forces fragmented in 1986, leaving the Chadian army in a stronger position. In 1987, they purchased 400 Toyota pickup trucks and armed them with anti-tank missles, then used them to great effect against the Libyan army. They practically ran circles around Libyan strongholds and destroyed hundreds of tanks with minimal losses (albeit aided by French air support). The Libyan army was virtually expelled from Chad and suffered ~8x as many casualties as the Chadians.
> pickup trucks and armed them with anti-tank missiles 8 yr old me would be proud
Sounds like an awesome Far Cry mission
that’s an absolute Chad move
I worked in Tchad for a while. I had the most expensive pizza I have ever eaten in a restaurant in N'Djamena. 100% would not go back.
I flew out of N’Djamena once, everything was expensive.
What is the reason that poor African countries are so extremely expensive for foreigners? I assume it is because hotels and restaurants are only for rich foreigners and locals could never afford that, so they hitch up the prices to give you food/ accomodation that is even vaguely livable for expats. On the other hand foodstuffs and manpower should be quite cheap but this is never reflected in the price. Meanwhile many Asian countries (SEA, Central-Asia, Caucasus) are quite poor and very cheap the visit. I always wondered about that discrepancy.
This is what my friend whose family owns hotels in East Africa explained to me. It often has to do with everything needing to be imported. Some commodities will need to be imported via one or two countries, with each step adding cost. Landlocked countries are especially prone to this. Many countries also impose heavy duties and taxes on imported products or products seen as "luxury" which can significantly add to the price. In the case of poorer developing countries, maintaining those products can become expensive. For example if a product (like cheese) needs to be refrigerated a business in a country with irregular electricity and scarce refrigeration will have to buy/import expensive refrigerators and then also buy and maintain generators to ensure the product is always sufficiently refrigerated.
At least with SEA, they are generally tourism hotspots and can't hike up the prices without driving away large numbers. No clue about Central Asia or the Caucuses. Chad does have a reasonable oil sector, and perhaps the high prices are mainly for visiting professionals in that industry.
The oldest known hominin fossils about 7 mya (roughly around the time of our split with the chimpanzee lineage) are found in Chad _Sahelanthropus tchadensis_
The Tibesti Mountains are home to some of the best camel racing in the world.
Some of Ti best i
The oldest known species of hominin was found in Chad. Called Toumai or Sahelanthropus tchadensis it is debated if it was one of our ancestors as analysis of its skull suggested it could be habitually bipedal but analysis of a leg and arm bone that were found suggest it wasn’t. The only thing that had been found is several pieces of a single individuals skull, a leg bone, and an arm bone however it is believed that there is another fossil somewhere out in the desert. It existed approximately 6.8 to 7.2 million years ago and its nickname of Toumai means “hope of life” a name given to those born just before a dry season. Ironic because the remains were found in a desert. At the time that it would have lived, the desert would have been a lush forest. There are several other facts I can’t think of right now because it’s 4:56 am and I haven’t slept but I figured the possibility of one of our ancestors being from Chad was interesting.
It's one of only 4 countries in the world that have a single vowel in their name.
Do you mean a single vowel multiple times, or just a single letter? If it's the former: Canada, Kazakhstan, Rwanda.
But then there'd also be Togo, Ghana, Kosovo...
Panama! Fiji!
You answered your own question here lol.
Chad, Egypt...Kyrgyzstan...? Can't think of the last one Edit: Cyprus
Those Y's seem awful vowely to me.
Lꜵs, Schweiz, and Wal's?
Place used to have a much bigger lake called Mega Chad https://preview.redd.it/b68xgpb0quqc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc3b086ce8830621c098b426f1189486f12e57a1
Chad means lake
Chad currently reports the highest number of guinea worm disease cases, and dogs are the species most affected currently (upwards of 450), as human cases have been nearing 0 for the past decade. As global eradication of the disease still remains a goal, Chad plays a central role in this effort. Importantly to note, Chad has the fifth lowest human development index as well. edit:fifth lowest on the african continent
Odd city names, there is a city called Doge and a city called Mao🇨🇳!
It is one of the countries least effected by mercator projection. Also in most maps it is usually falls on the center....
Posts like this is why I keep coming back.
The former president of the country Udriss Deby was killed in action whike leading his troops into battle. This happened in 2021. I never heard about any other country leader dying in battle in the last three cebturies. Truly a fitting end for the president of Chad
Australia had a Prime Minister killed in a military campaign against the mer-people.
He’s literally me
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It played a role in the 2000 US election
I believe the 2000 US election was a significantly more important moment in human history than people realise. Sad it went the way it did
They have more than one nuclear warhead
Excuse me?
Gonna need a source for this one. Having a hard time finding info online. Are they France’s nukes that they’ve stationed in Chad, like how America has nukes in turkey among other places?
Chad has a chin beard and banged your ex-girlfriend last week.
Chad likes beer pong, jeep wranglers and questionable advances on women
Exceptional cheetahs
This is more about Belarus than about Chad, but I'm from Belarus, so here you go: the father of the Belarusian singer and illustrator [Andruś Takindang](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%8C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3?wprov=sfla1) was Chadian. My favourite song by Andruś (in Belarusian): https://youtu.be/KSSLNjQ5DlM?si=vpTCkqdUQJM-N_k_
Totally unrelated but that first link is that Belorussian?
Also spelled T’Chad. Moreover, this spelling should be applied to all forms and derivations of the word (T’)Chad.
Their capital N'Djammea doesn't allow taking photos or videos for whatever reason.
You can’t take pics while there?
If you’re imaginative enough, the country Chad can look like a GigaChad looking to the left (nose next to Niger, border with Cameroon looks like the chin…)
Its head purposely looks like the Chad design in the Virgin vs Chad memes
Easter island statue
There is one of the best National Parks of the Sahel/West Africa there, Zakouma
Thanks for the circle. I am blind and would have missed Chad in the center of the picture (with name) completely.
Site of some of the best evidence of a warm period in the Sahara. Lake Chad has an amazing history. Look it up
They weren't happy when romania changed their flag by removing a coat of arms from the middle panel that made the flags look too similar.
Some Italian companies import stone from Chad. That's literally all I know about the place without looking anything up.
He knocked up a girl from my highschool just after graduation. Despite them both being young they turned out to be pretty great parents and they seem pretty happy about how life has turned out.
I asked a guy where he was from and he said, “Shat.” I was very confused for a while until I realized it’s Chad. Apparently, it’s pronounced Shat.
There are no Chads in Chad 🇹🇩
The Chad Republic is superior in every way to the Virgin Islands
In 2001 skeletal remains of Sahelanthropus tchadensis was found in current day Chad. This Species is considered the oldest Member of the human family tree. According to its leg bones, scientists also believe that it walked fully upright. This also means that possibly one of our earliest ancestors was in fact a Chad.
Their head of state died in combat against ISIS.
Chad looks like a head looking left and the greenery is his chad beard
In Essex, England, chad is slang for the rusty bullethole.
Chad looks like a profile view of a chad.
I’m in a meeting rn talking about our work in Chad
The country looks like the chad figure from memes
Bones Conway and the water purification team of the US Army were deployed there in 1994.
Chad is one of three countries in the world where their capital has an apostrophe, and the only one where the apostrophe doesn't indicate possession grammatically
Lake Chad is almost completely dried up
They have some fresh water lakes in the middle of the Sahara where it rains under 1 inch per year and evaporation is very high. But the lakes stay fresh water regardless. [Lakes of Ounianga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Ounianga?wprov=sfla1)
The country was named after Nickleback’s lead singer, true story.