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Am-Djarass
Amdjarass (, ) may refer to: * Amdjarass (city), with a population of 20,850 (2009), in the northeast of Chad, or * Amdjarass (department), one of the two departments in the province of Ennedi Est. The city is the capital of both the department and the province A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
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Ennedi Est
Ennedi Est () is one of the twenty-three provinces of Chad, provinces of Chad. The capital and largest city of the province is Amdjarass (city), Amdjarass. History It was established on September 4, 2012 from part of the former Ennedi Region. It appears to cover the same territory as the former Ennedi Est Department. From 1960 to 1999, the province was part of the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (prefecture), Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Prefecture, and until 2008 was the Ennedi Est Department in the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (region), region of the same name. From 2008 to 2012, the province was part of the Ennedi Region as the Wadi Hawar department until the Ennedi Region was divided. Geography The province is situated in the far northeast of Chad. It borders Kufra District in Libya to the north, North Darfur in Sudan to the east, Wadi Fira Region to the south, and Ennedi-Ouest Region to the west. The region is geographically part of the Sahara Desert, and contains features such as the Erdi Plateau ...
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Amdjarass (city)
Amdjarass or Am-Djarass () is the capital city of the province of Ennedi Est in northern Chad. It is also the capital of the second level administrative division, the Amdjarass department. It is the largest city in the region and the fourth largest in Saharan (Northern) Chad. The city is presently mapped in OpenStreetMap, but many atlases do not put this city on the map. Despite formerly being an isolated Saharan oasis, its population as of the 2009 census is 20,850, and has grown considerably from just 657 residents in the 1993 census. Since 1990, it has been the home town of Chad's ruling Déby family. On July 3, 2015, Chadian president Idriss Deby visited Amdjarass. It is the city in which he would be buried 6 years later. The town has a hotel called the Toumai Hotel Amdjarass and a fortress. There is a boomerang-shaped rock with the town's name at the entrance to the town. The mayor is Ismael Miss. Declan Walsh of The New York Times has reported that in 2023, during the ...
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Departments Of Chad
The provinces of Chad have been divided into 120 Department (country subdivision), departments since 2024. The departments are listed below, by name and by former region. Departments sorted by name Departments grouped by region (prior to 2018) The following is a list of departments grouped by Regions of Chad, region, prior to the reorganization into provinces in 2018, followed by further division until 2024. Shown next to each department is its population as of 2009, the name of its capital city, capital or main town (''chef-lieu'' in French), and a list of Sub-prefectures of Chad, sub-prefectures (''sous-préfectures''). Bahr el Gazel (region of Chad), Bahr El Gazel Created in 2008 from the Kanem Region, Kanem region's former Barh El Gazel Department, Barh El Gazel department. Batha Region, Batha Borkou Region, Borkou Created in 2008 from the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region, Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region's former Borkou Department, Borkou department. Chari-Ba ...
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Amdjarass (department)
Amdjarass (, ) is a department within the Ennedi Est Ennedi Est () is one of the twenty-three provinces of Chad, provinces of Chad. The capital and largest city of the province is Amdjarass (city), Amdjarass. History It was established on September 4, 2012 from part of the former Ennedi Region. It ... province of the Republic of Chad. Its capital is the city of Amdjarass. References Departments of Chad Chad geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Chad-geo-stub ...
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