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Bookmark or Share- Lake Chad - WikipediaLake Chad (Arabic: بحيرة تشاد, Kanuri: Sádǝ, French: Lac Tchad) is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area of 1 × 10 ^ 6 km 2 (390,000 sq mi). It is an important wetland ecosystem in West-Central Africa.
- Lake Chad | Physical Features & Economy | BritannicaLake Chad, freshwater lake located in the Sahelian zone of west-central Africa at the conjunction of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. It is situated in an interior basin formerly occupied by a much larger ancient sea that is sometimes called Mega-Chad. Historically, Lake Chad has ranked among.
- Lake Chad - WorldAtlasLake Chad is a freshwater lake in Northern Central Africa, located in western Chad, with some of its parts extending into Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. The lake provides water to over 30 million people living in the surrounding countries, making it one of the region’s most important lakes.
- Lake Chad: Can the vanishing lake be saved? - BBC30 March 2018. By Will Ross,BBC Africa regional editor. Getty Images. Lake Chad - a source of water to millions of people in West Africa - has shrunk by nine-tenths due to climate change,...
- Remnants of an Ancient Lake - NASA Earth ObservatoryAbout 7,000 years ago, a vast lake spread hundreds of square kilometers across north-central Africa. Known to scientists as Lake Mega Chad, it covered more than 400,000 square kilometers (150,000 square miles) at its peak, making it slightly larger than the Caspian Sea, the biggest lake on Earth today.
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