Interesting Facts about Chad

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19 curious facts about Chad.

• Chad is named after Lake Chad, which is the fourth largest lake in Africa and the seventh largest in the world. It is an extremely shallow lake that has no outlet to the sea and its shoreline changes every year as parts of it dry up.
• The lungfish, Protopterus annectens, lives in Lake Chad's floodplains. It is able to survive buried in dried-up mud throughout the dry season, because it can breathe air through its lungs.
• At the summit of the Tibesti mountain system stands the dormant volcano Emi Koussi, 3,414 meters above sea level. It is not only the highest point in Chad, but the highest point in the entire Sahara desert.
• Chad australopithecine is a type of early hominid identified from the remains of a single body found in 1960 at Koro Toro in southeast Chad. The remains were found close by the teeth of an extinct elephant and are thought to be 200,000 to 500,000 years old.