Chad–Sudan border

E247377

The Chad–Sudan border is a long, sparsely populated frontier in central Africa that separates eastern Chad from western Sudan and is home to diverse ethnic groups and languages.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Chad–Sudan border canonical 2
Chad–Sudan relations 1
Sudan–Chad border 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf international border
land border
administeredBy Government of Chad
Government of Sudan
approximateCreationPeriod early 20th century
borderType mostly straight-line segments
climateType arid
semi-arid
colonialPowerInvolved Egypt
France
United Kingdom
continent Africa
countryOnSide1 Chad
countryOnSide2 Sudan
createdBy colonial-era agreements
demarcationBasis latitude and longitude lines
ethnicGroupPresent Arab groups
Fur people
Masalit people
Zaghawa people
hasCheckpoints true
hasCrossBorderRaids true
hasCrossBorderTrade true
hasEthnicDiversity true
hasHumanitarianOperations true
hasLinguisticDiversity true
hasPastoralNomadism true
hasRefugeeMovements true
hasSecurityIssues true
hasSmuggling true
isPorous true
isSparselyPopulated true
languageFamilySpoken Afroasiatic languages
Nilo-Saharan languages
lengthApproxKm 1360
mainEconomicActivityNearby pastoralism
small-scale agriculture
nearbyConflict Chad–Sudan conflict
Darfur conflict
partOf Chad–Sudan border self-linksurface differs
surface form: Chad–Sudan relations
passesThrough Sahel
surface form: Sahel region

savanna region
semi-arid zone
region Central Africa
surface form: central Africa
separates eastern Chad
western Sudan
usedBy internally displaced persons
refugees from Darfur

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maban languages spokenPrimarilyIn Chad–Sudan border
this entity surface form: eastern Chad
Maban languages areSpokenNear Chad–Sudan border
Masalit people borderRegion Chad–Sudan border
this entity surface form: Sudan–Chad border
Chad–Sudan border partOf Chad–Sudan border self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Chad–Sudan relations
Sungor people culturalRegion Chad–Sudan border
this entity surface form: Sudan–Chad borderlands
Zaghawa people borderStraddlingGroup Chad–Sudan border