Lake Chad
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Lake Chad (in French Lac Tchad) is a historically lairge, shallow lake in Africae, whose size haes varied ower the centuries. Accordin tae the Unitit Naitions (UN) it shrank as muckle as bi 95 percent frae aboot 1963 tae 1998[1] yet they an aa state that "The 2007 (satellite) image shows significant improvement ower previous years". Lake Chad is economically important, providin water tae mair than 20 million fowk livin in the fower kintras that surroond it (Chad, Cameroon, Niger, an Nigerie) on the edge o the Sahara Desert.
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- Endorheic lakes
- Shrunken lakes
- Lake Chad
- Lakes o Chad
- Lakes o Niger
- Lakes o Nigeria
- Lakes o Cameroon
- Ramsar sites in Chad
- Ramsar sites in Cameroon
- Ramsar sites in Niger
- Ramsar sites in Nigerie
- Floodit grasslands an savannas
- Chad–Niger border
- Chad–Nigerie border
- Niger–Nigerie border
- Cameroon–Chad border
- Cameroon–Nigerie border
- Ecoregions o Africae
- Internaitional lakes o Africae
- Border tripoints