Chad

Facts

What the numbers say about Chad

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 13.4× the size of Chad.
• Chad ranks 21st of 239 by area but only 65th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 15 people per km², Chad is the 162nd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Chad lies at 15°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Chad's main territory stretches about 1,780 km north to south and 1,130 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,284,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,266,000 km², to within 2%.

How Chad measures up

Chad holds 4.2% of the land area and 1.4% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Middle Africa it is the 2nd largest of 9.

Where Chad sits

• Chad's centre lies at 15.3°N, 18.6°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,700 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 7°N to 23°N, about 1,780 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Chad had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Chad would have 1.59 billion people. It has 19.3 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Chad would have 4.7 million people. It has 19.3 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 91.6 million.

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