Chad

Chad in pictures

Flag, landscapes, landmarks and wildlife you can meet in the games. Photographs come from each subject’s Wikipedia article.

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  Flag

  Flag of Chad

  National flag

• 🌍Ennedi Plateau

  Landscape

  Ennedi Plateau

  A real place in Chad

• 🐘Zakouma National Park

  Landmark

  Zakouma National Park

  Elephant herds here recovered from near-total loss to poaching.

• 🪨Ennedi Massif

  Landmark

  Ennedi Massif

  Desert crocodiles survive in rock pools left over from a wetter age.

• 💧Lake Chad

  Landmark

  Lake Chad

  It has lost most of its surface since the 1960s but still feeds millions.

• 🐘African elephant

  Wildlife

  African elephant

  The largest land animal alive — and it talks through the ground with rumbles.

• 🐏Addax antelope

  Wildlife

  Addax antelope

  It can live its whole life without ever drinking free water.

• 🦅Rüppell's vulture

  Wildlife

  Rüppell's vulture

  The highest-flying bird ever recorded — 11,000 metres up.

• 🐏Barbary sheep

  Wildlife

  Barbary sheep

  It can climb near-vertical rock and go without drinking for days.

• 🐐Scimitar-horned oryx

  Wildlife

  Scimitar-horned oryx

  Extinct in the wild by 2000, it now runs free again in Chad.

• 🐦Red-billed quelea

  Wildlife

  Red-billed quelea

  The most numerous wild bird on Earth — flocks can darken the sky.

• 🦌Roan antelope

  Wildlife

  Roan antelope

  Second only to the eland in size, with backswept scimitar horns.

• 🏙️N'Djamena

  City

  N'Djamena

  Capital of Chad

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