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Moussoro

Barh El Gazel

Sahelian province of the west-centre, capital Moussoro. An agro-pastoral zone between Kanem and Borkou. Cultural areas extend beyond this division.

Ati

Batha

Province of the central Sahel, capital Ati. Plains and basins, including Fitri. The administrative map does not match pastoral routes.

Faya-Largeau

Borkou

Saharan province of the north, capital Faya-Largeau (Faya). Oases, palm groves and former trans-Saharan routes. Coordinates of sensitive places are kept deliberately coarse.

Massenya

Chari-Baguirmi

Province around the Chari, capital Massenya, former capital of the Baguirmi kingdom. The Gaoui museum and N’Djamena are nearby; identities do not stop at the provincial line.

Am-Djarass

Ennedi-Est

North-eastern province, capital Am-Djarass (Amdjarass). Eastern part of the Ennedi massif, UNESCO World Heritage since 2016 together with Ennedi-Ouest. Rock art is documented from specialist sources, without locating vulnerable sites.

Fada

Ennedi-Ouest

North-eastern province, capital Fada. It includes the Lakes of Ounianga (World Heritage, 2012) and the Guelta d’Archei. Conservation and access are checked with the authorities; sacred or vulnerable places are not pin-pointed.

Mongo

Guéra

Central province, capital Mongo, around the Guéra massif. The Guéra festival is documented in the archive; identities of the massif are wider than the province.

Massakory

Hadjer-Lamis

Province east and north of N’Djamena, capital Massakory. It links the Chari basin to Lake Chad. Fishing, farming and mobility are tied together here; local detail still needs sourcing.

Mao

Kanem

Province of the western Sahel, capital Mao. The name recalls Kanem-Bornu history, treated on the History page with scholarly references. The present-day province is not the medieval kingdom.

Bol

Lac

Lake Chad province, capital Bol. Fishing, islands and shores; the water body shrank sharply in the 20th century. Mobility and displacement are written carefully here, without invented figures.

Moundou

Logone Occidental

South-western province, capital Moundou, the main city of the south. Farming, cotton, markets and contemporary urban life. People of the Logone also live across the Cameroonian border.

Doba

Logone Oriental

Southern province, capital Doba. Farmland and oil of the Doba basin. Languages and communities are shared with Cameroon and the Central African Republic; nothing is attributed here without a source.

Koumra

Mandoul

Southern province, capital Koumra. Farming and ties with Sarh and the Chari basin. Sara clusters of Mandoul and Moyen-Chari are not reduced to a single page.

Bongor

Mayo-Kebbi Est

South-western province, capital Bongor, on the Logone. Fishing, farming and cross-border markets. Mundang, Tupuri and Masa have portraits in the archive; other communities remain to be documented.

Pala

Mayo-Kebbi Ouest

South-western province, capital Pala. Lakes, rivers and farming. Practices and languages are shared with Mayo-Kebbi Est and Cameroon; local festivals are published only when dated and sourced.

Sarh

Moyen-Chari

Southern province, capital Sarh, on the Chari. Farming, a regional town and Sara memory. The archive’s Sara portrait also covers other southern provinces.

N’Djamena

N’Djamena

Capital province, founded as Fort-Lamy (1900) and renamed N’Djamena in 1973. A multilingual city of markets, contemporary music, institutions and diasporas. The Dary Festival presents the provinces here.

Abéché

Ouaddaï

Eastern province, capital Abéché, former capital of the Wadai sultanate. Trade, scholarly networks and a plurality of languages. The historical sultanate is not the same as the present-day province.

Am Timan

Salamat

South-eastern province, capital Am Timan. Seasonal wetlands and Zakouma National Park (African Parks). Wildlife and savanna do not stand in for the communities who live there.

Goz Beïda

Sila

Eastern province, capital Goz Beïda. Farming, pastoralism and cross-border ties with Darfur. Displacement and resilience are written only with sources and consent.

Laï

Tandjilé

Southern province, capital Laï, in the Logone valley. Farming, fishing and oral traditions. Marba, Lele and Gabri have portraits; other Tandjilé groups remain to be documented.

Bardaï

Tibesti

Province of the Tibesti massif, capital Bardaï. Saharan mountains, oases and Teda mobility. Coordinates of inhabited or sacred places are kept deliberately coarse.

Biltine

Wadi Fira

Province of the eastern Sahel, capital Biltine. Sahelian environments, pastoralism and ties toward Darfur. Local languages and accounts join the archive only once sourced.

A people, a language or a festival may concern several provinces. Administrative borders are not cultural borders.

The same outline for all 23 provinces. An empty heading is a gap, not a fact. Nothing is invented to fill the page.

Ordinance no. 038/PR/2018 of 10 August 2018: the 22 regions plus Ennedi split (2012) become 23 provinces.

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