CHAD

**CHAD**

 * official and other major languages || Major religions || population || life expectancy || urban population || literacy rate || doctors per 100,000 people || total area (square miles) || arithmetic population density* || Annual Population growth from births to deaths ||
 * **French**, **Arabic**, Sara, more than 120 others || Muslim, Christian, Animist || 9,500,000 || 49 years old || 24% || 48% || 3 doctors || 495,753 || 19 || 3.2% ||

Chad is a very open country. It's climate zone is arid and semiarid, meaning that it is very dry. It's vegetation zone is desert scrub and tropical grassland, meaning that it is a dry and tropical wet climate, it has mainly small trees, bushes, and other plants for desert scrub and then for tropical grassland, it has mainly grasses and scattered trees. The population density of Chad in a little over half of Chad is 2-25 people per square mile, and in the other half, it's under 2 people per square mile. The economic activity in Chad is commercial farming, nomadic herding, substinence farming, and little or no activity in some areas. Chad's climate is arid and semiarid. Semiarid means that it is very dry with hot summer and cool, dry winters. Arid means that it is hot and dry all year with very little rain. In the northern part of Chad it's dryer than the southern part of Chad. Lots of cacti exist in arid climates, because they don't require a lot of rain, making it easy for them to live in a dry climate. Chad has two different vegetation zones. The northern part of Chad is Desert scrub, and the southern part is Tropical grassland. Desert scrub means that it has mainly small trees, bushes, and other plants. Tropical grassland means it has mainly grasses and scattered trees, that are adapted to a tropical wet and dry climate. Both of these vegetation zones are adapted to the dry climate. The population density of Chad is different in the northern and southern regions of Chad. The northern half of Chad is under two people per square mile. The southern half of Chad is two to twenty-five people per square mile. This means that on average, in every square mile, there will be either two people, or twenty-five people. When the population density of an area is less than two, it tends to be a very open square mile, with not much life. Chad has very little economic activity. It has a small range of land use, but no common resources. Chad's people use the land for nomadic herding, subsistnence farming, commercial farming, and in some parts of Chad, there is little or no activity. Subsistence farming means farming carried out mainly to provide food for farm supplies, and commercial farming means raising crops for sale, often with use of large ships. Nomadic herding means the raising of livestock for food by moving herds from place to place to find pasture and water.