Map of Chad

Chad is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 15.0° N, 19.0° E. Chad is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 6 neighbours — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Libya, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Chad is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Chad is surrounded by the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Chad covers about 1,284,000 km² (495,755 sq mi). That makes it the 20th-largest country in the world by area and the 5th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 49 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 19,340,757, the 67th-largest in the world and the 24th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.3% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Chad has an average population density of about 15 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 24th by population and 5th by area.

The seat of government is N'Djamena, and the official currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, Fr), and the main official languages are Arabic and French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Chad carries the ISO country codes TD and TCD, dials on the international calling code +235 and uses the .td internet domain.

Chad shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Nigeria (capital Abuja, about 223,800,000 people), Sudan (capital Khartoum, about 51,662,000 people), Cameroon (capital Yaoundé, about 29,442,327 people), Niger (capital Niamey, about 26,312,034 people), Libya (capital Tripoli, about 7,459,000 people) and Central African Republic (capital Bangui, about 6,470,307 people).

By area, Chad is larger than 4 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 15.0° N, 19.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Chad within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of N'Djamena. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Chad lies about 1,665 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Chad keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, Fr).

The official languages are Arabic and French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +235 and websites commonly use the .td internet domain.

In short, Chad is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is N'Djamena. Chad has a population of about 19,340,757 and covers around 1,284,000 km² (495,755 sq mi), ranking it 67th in the world by population and 20th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Chad.

The flag of Chad is composed of three equal vertical bands of blue, gold and red.

The flag of Chad is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.