N'Djamena

N'Djamena
/euhn jah may"nah/, n.
a city in and the capital of Chad, in the SW part. 192,962. Formerly, Fort-Lamy.

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City (pop., 1993: metro. area, 530,965), capital of Chad.

It lies adjacent to Cameroon on the eastern bank of the Chari River, where it joins the Logone River. Founded in 1900 as Fort-Lamy, it remained a small settlement until after Chad's independence in 1960. In 1973 its name was changed to N'Djamena. It was occupied by Libyan forces in 1980–81 during the civil war that began in the 1960s. It is an important marketplace for cotton, cattle, and fish. It is the site of the nation's only university, the University of Chad (founded 1971).

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Chad

      capital of Chad, located on the southwestern border, adjacent to Cameroon. It lies on the east bank of the Chari River at its confluence with the Logone River in an alluvial plain that is flooded during the rainy season (July–September). The city was founded in 1900 across the Chari River from Fort-Fureau (Kousseri), where French colonial troops defeated and killed the Sudanese adventurer Rābiḥ az-Zubayr (Rābiḥ az-Zubayr), who had established a military hegemony in districts east of Lake Chad. It was named Fort-Lamy after a French major who also died in the battle, and it remained a small Kotoko settlement until after Chad's independence in 1960. Its name was changed to N'Djamena in 1973, and the city was occupied by Libyan forces in 1980–81 during the civil war that had begun in the mid-1960s.

      N'Djamena is in the centre of cotton-growing, cattle-raising, and fishing areas and is thus an important market site. It has a refrigerated slaughterhouse and is the headquarters of many financial and light-industrial firms. The University of Chad was established in the city in 1971, and the National School of Administration in 1963. Affiliated with the National Institute of Human Sciences (1961) is the National Museum (1963), with collections specializing in paleontology, prehistory, and ethnography. The regional Lake Chad Basin Commission is headquartered in the city. N'Djamena is connected by road with Nigeria, The Sudan, and the Central African Republic, as well as with such major towns of Chad as Abéché and Sarh. It also has an international airport. Pop. (2005) urban agglom., 888,000.

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