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.
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-préfectures'').
References
Regions of Chad
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