Wadi Fira ( ar, وادي فيرا)
is one of the 23
regions of Chad
The Republic of Chad is made up of twenty-three regions.
Chad was divided into regions in 2002. It was previously divided into prefectures, and then departments.
Current regions
This is a list of the regions of Chad since 2012, with population ...
. Its
capital is the town of
Biltine.
The region corresponds with the former
prefecture of
Biltine.
Geography
The region borders
Borkou Region,
Ennedi-Ouest Region and
Ennedi-Est Region to the north,
Sudan to the east,
Ouaddaï Region
Ouaddaï ( ar, وداي) is a region of Chad, located in the south-east of the country, with its capital at Abéché. Prior to 2002 it was known as Ouaddaï Prefecture; in 2008 the southern portions of Ouaddaï (the Sila Department and Djour ...
to the south, and
Batha Region to the west. The terrain is savannah merging into the
Sahara Desert
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in the north, and rising to the east.
Settlements
Biltine is the region's capital; other major settlements include
Guéréda
Guéréda ( ar, غيريدا) is a town in the Wadi Fira Region, Chad. It is located at around .
Guéréda was the site of fighting between the Chadian army and the Rally of Democratic Forces (RAFD) in early December 2006. On December 1, el ...
,
Iriba and
Matadjana.
Demographics
As per the 2009 Chadian census, Wadi Fira's population is 508,383.
[ The main ethnolinguistic groups are the Amdang, ]Baggara
The Baggāra ( ar, البَقَّارَة "heifer herder") or Chadian Arabs are a nomadic confederation of people of mixed Arab and Arabized indigenous African ancestry, inhabiting a portion of the Sahel mainly between Lake Chad and the Nile ri ...
(generally speakers of Chadian Arabic
Chadian Arabic ( ar, لهجة تشادية), also known as Shuwa Arabic, Baggara Arabic, Western Sudanic Arabic, or West Sudanic Arabic (WSA), is a variety of Arabic and the first language of 1.6 million people, both town dwellers and nomadic c ...
), Maba, Mararit, Tama and Zaghawa Zaghawa may refer to:
* Zaghawa people
* Zaghawa language
Zaghawa is a Saharan language spoken by the Zaghawa people of east-central Chad (in the Sahel) and northwestern Sudan (Darfur). The people who speak this language call it Beria, from ''Be ...
.
Subdivisions
The region of Wadi Fira is divided into three departments, each listed with the name of its capital or main town (''chef-lieu
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
'' in French) and a list of sub-prefectures (''sous-préfecture
A subprefecture is an administrative division of a country that is below prefecture or province.
Albania
There are twelve Albanian counties or prefectures, each of which is divided into several districts, sometimes translated as subprefecture ...
s'').
References
Regions of Chad
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