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Landscape in Chad

Broad, arid plains in center, desert in north, mountains in northwest, lowlands in south. Lowest point: Djourab Depression (160 m/525 ft). Highest point: Emi Koussi (3,415 m/11,204 ft). The dominant physical structure is a wide basin bounded to the north, east and south by mountain ranges such as the Ennedi Plateau in the north-east. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the remains of an immense lake that occupied 330,000 km² (205,000 mi²) of the Chadian Basin 7,000 years ago. Although in the 21st century it covers only 17,806 km² (11,064 mi²), and its surface area is subject to heavy seasonal fluctuations, the lake is Africa's second largest wetland.

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