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I am a roundabout (or traffic circle) designed similarly to a flower, with ten streets radiating from my center. An assortment of buildings are sitting on my "petals." Situated in the southwest portion of a sprawling national capital, I am located about a kilometer away from the northern part of another country, CAMEROON. What capital city and country am I located in?
Answer is listed below!
Answer: N'Djamena, CHAD
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Belgrade, SERBIA
N'Djamena, CHAD
Paris, FRANCE
ʻUvea Island, WALLIS AND FUTUNA (belongs to France)
● Lake Chad
● Remote mud-brick villages
● Sahara Desert and Tibesti Mountains
● Unpaved roads
● The north-south religious divide
Listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
The following items are major exports of CHAD: cattle, cotton, gold, gravel and sand, gum arabic, kaolin, limestone, millet, natron, peanuts, petroleum, potatoes, rice, and sorghum. According to the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports (February 2017 statistics) include China (top importer), India, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Turkey, Vietnam, Pakistan, Portugal, Italy, France, Indonesia, Germany, Ireland, Central African Republic, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Egypt, and Palestine.
As of February 9th, 2015, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ for CHAD in North-Central Africa lists one extinct species (the Scimitar-horned Oryx) since the beginning of IUCN recordkeeping, six critically endangered species, and ten endangered species. Chad's critically endangered species on the IUCN List are as follows: Addax (White Antelope), Black Rhinoceros, Dama Gazelle, Slender-snouted Crocodile, Sociable Lapwing, and Gabbiella neothaumaeformis freshwater snail. The G. N. snail species is probably located only on Lake Chad's southern shore. Even more problematic, Lake Chad is shrinking rapidly due to high evaporation rates and irrigation water usage.
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My capital is N'Djamena, located near a lake that has the same name as mine. My northern part is considered the Aozou Strip. The currency my citizens use is the Central African CFA Franc, which is used by other countries in Central Africa, too. Lastly, I am bordered by Libya to the north, Central African Republic to the south, Sudan to the east, and Niger to the west; Cameroon is southwest of me. Answer is revealed below...
Answer: CHAD!
Quite a few capitals previously had different names. The following is a list of many, definitely not all, of the capitals that had different names in the past — they are categorized by continent.
AFRICA
Bujumbura, BURUNDI's former capital (Gitega is the new capital since 2019), was called Usumbura until 1962.
N'Djamena, CHAD's capital, was called Fort Lamy until 1973.
Kinshasa, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO's capital, was called Léopoldville until 1966.
Banjul, the capital of GAMBIA, was named Bathurst until 1973.
Antananarivo, MADAGASCAR's capital, was named Tananarive until 1975.
Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE's capital, was named Lourenço Marques until Mozambique's independence in 1976.
Harare, ZIMBABWE's capital, was named Salisbury until 1982.
ASIA
Tbilisi, GEORGIA's capital, was known as Tpilisi (Georgian) or Tiflis (Russian) until 1936.
Jakarta, INDONESIA's highly-populated capital, was known as Sunda Kelapa, then Jayakata, then Batavia, then Djakarta from 1949 to 1972.
Tokyo, JAPAN's capital located on the island of Honshu, was previously named Edo until 1868.
Astana, KAZAKHSTAN's capital, was known as Tselinograd, then Aqmola.
Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN's capital, was named Pishpek until 1926 and Frunze until 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.
Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA's capital, was known as Ugra until 1924.
Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN's capital, was called Dyushambe until 1929 and received the name Stalinagrad until 1961.
Ankara, TURKEY's capital, was called Angora until 1930.
Ashgabat, TURKMENISTAN's capital, was called Poltoratsk from 1919 until 1927.
EUROPE
Belgrade, SERBIA's capital, was known as Singidunum in ancient times.
Podgorica, MONTENEGRO's capital, was known as Birziminium before the 11th century, Ribnica during the Middle Ages, and Titograd from 1946 to 1992. The capital possessed the name Podgorica in 1326 until 1946, resuming in 1992.
SOUTH AMERICA
Sucre, one of two capitals of BOLIVIA and named in honor of Antonio José de Sucre, was called Chuquisaca until 1825.
Credit goes to the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition, which conveniently listed former capital names.
CHAD, a Central-African country that borders Cameroon, Central African Republic, Libya, Niger, Nigeria, and Sudan, has the capital of N'Djamena. Want to know how to pronounce that? Merriam-Webster has a reliable pronunciation. To learn more about Chad, take a visit to my Chad post!
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CHAD is a country in Central Africa. There are 6 bordering countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Libya, Niger, Nigeria, and Sudan. Located southeast of Lake Chad and near Cameroon, the capital and most-populated city is N'Djamena. Other cities and communities include Am Timan, Abéché, Aozou, Bol, Ati, Bongor, Doba, Fada, Faya-Largeau, Kélo, Koro Toro, Laï, Massenya, Mongo, Moundou, Pala, Sarh, and Zouar. According to Ethnologue (↗), over 130 languages are used for spoken and written communication throughout the country. French and Standard Arabic are official languages, while the Chadian Arabic dialect is considered a non-official language of common usage. Other major languages with more than 100,000 communicators include Daza (Dazaga), Adamawa Fulfulde, Bagirmi Fulfulde, Bargo (also known as Mabak or Ouaddai), Gor, Hausa, Kanembu, Central Kanuri, Marba, Masana, Mundang, Musey, Naba, Ngambay, Toubouri (Tupuri), and Zaghawa (Zorhaua). The currency is the Central African Franc, and its ISO 4217 currency code is XAF.
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