Chad has a land area of 486,333.7 square miles.
The Sahara Desert covers approximately 294,900 square miles of Chad.
495,755.1 square miles.
Chad's area is 496,000 square miles (1,280,000 square kilometers).
Lake Chad
Lake Nyasa
You can find all kinds of information about Chad including the area here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad
Chad is more than 3 times the size of the US state of California. Chad is a country located in Central Africa, with an area of 495,753 square miles.
1. Algeria 919,595 square miles. 2. Democratic Republic of the Congo 905,355 square miles. 3. Sudan 718,723 square miles. 4. Libya 679,362 square miles. 5. Chad 495,755 square miles. 6. Niger 489,191 square miles. 7. Angola 481,354 square miles. 8. Mali 478,841 square miles. 9. South Africa 471,445 square miles. 10. Ethiopia 426,373 square miles.
Lake Chad was a giant lake that had thousands and thousands of square miles of the surface area of the lake. but over the years there was a series of droughts and people were using it for fish, water, and crops. because of all that the lake now is only about 495 square miles. so, lake chad was a very important and very good resource for the people around it that were desperate. :)
Lake Chad in Africa has a surface area of 595 square miles. It has an elevation of 919 feet and a maximum depth of 34 feet.
260,558 square miles