Lake Chad Africa Map

Its basin covers parts of nigeria, niger, chad and cameroon, and has. Back then, the lake covered about 25,000 square kilometers, an area the size of the u.s. The map shows chad, a vast landlocked country in the north of central africa.

Lake chad's location in africa (with country names) 0° equator democratic republic of the congo gabon n y a o p a n d nigeria egypt b y a a r mauritania western sahara guinea c a m e r o o n s e n e g a l g h a n a m o r o c c o t u n i s i a s o m a l i a u g a n d a m a l i burkina faso liberia 15°n rwanda burundi tanzania djibouti It now spans less than a tenth of the area it covered in the 1960s. Students will explore the rate of change in area of lake chad in africa over the years.

The four west african nations and benin reconstituted the force in 2015 to fight jihadist group boko haram and its rival, the islamic state in west africa province (iswap).

Lake chad is a large, but shallow endorheic lake located on the african continent, in the western part of chad, on the edge of the sahara desert. A multinational force with troops from nigeria, niger, cameroon, and chad on tuesday said it had killed over 800 jihadists in about two months in the volatile lake chad region. It accounts for up to 90% of lake chad’s water and empties into the lake from the south. Lake chad is located in the centre of the western frontier.