Chad covers 1,284,000 square kilometres
(495,800 square miles). In the Saharan territories of the north, the
Tibesti mountains have extinct volcanic peaks that reach 3,415 metres (11,204 feet). The Ennedi and Wadai plateaus along the eastern border with Sudan
have peaks that reach 600 metres (1,969 feet).
To the south and west the land slopes
to the Bodele depression and Lake Chad basin. The rain that falls in the south
part of Chad drains into the Shari and Congo, or Zaire, rivers. The northern
two thirds of the country is in the hot arid Sahara desert. The official
languages are French and Arabic, but many other languages are spoken.
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