N'Djamena - description of the city:
Chad Capital was founded in 1900th at the confluence of the Chari and Logone rivers. Up to 1973d year the city bore the name of Fort-Lamy. Until its renaming N`Djamena was known as one of the most beautiful and peaceful cities of the Sahel, where the French influence is clearly traced. However, begging soon after independence of the city, the civil war has caused terrible damage to its former glory.
Currently, the city is slowly returning to its real image, not least due to the fact that the inhabitance of N`Djamena are considered some of the friendliest and most hard-working people of Africa. The rapid growth of urban areas and intensive modernization of urban infrastructure made N`Djamena issued real political, economic, and cultural center of the country, and its bustling markets, craft workshops, and a lot of burgeoning musical cultural in stark contrast with a lot of tree-lined avenues, colonial palaces and fountains, left over from the past. Traces of potholes and bullets vividly reminded of the complicated history of the city, however, N`Djamena is changing for the better.
The city is divided into two parts- a small «European» or «administrative» area and mush larger and more lively- «African» area. Almost all of the sights in N`Djamena belong to the colonial period and are concentrated in the Old Town, which occupies the north-western part, near the Place de I`Etoile. There can be seen the towering over the city`s neighborhoods- Grand Mosque, colorful buildings of Prefecture and the President`s Palace, the Catholic mission in Chad National Museum with an unique collection of Sarh culture (IX century BC.e.), the University, as well as an extensive business district Kufra Camp, which is disposed almost entirely in the range of the colonial quarter.
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Chad
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| International title |
N'Djamena |
| Population |
721,081 people |
| Timezone |
Africa/Ndjamena |
| State |
Region du Chari-Baguirmi |
| Geographic coordinates |
Latitude: 12.11058 x Longitude: 15.03479 |
Photo Galery N'Djamena
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#01: Places of interest in N'Djamena |
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#02: Places to see in N'Djamena |
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#04: Walks across N'Djamena |
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#05: The beauty of N'Djamena |
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#07: Places to visit in N'Djamena |
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#08: One day in N'Djamena |
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#09: N'Djamena - places of Interest |
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#11: A tour about N'Djamena |
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Places to visit in N'Djamena
Famous Places
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Prater
Country: Austria
Originally an imperial hunting ground, the woods and meadows between the Danube and its canal were opened to the public by Joseph II in 1766. The Hauptallee (central avenue) was for a long time the preserve of the nobility and their footmen. During ...
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Judenburg
Country: Austria
This town at the fork of a road is an old mercantile centre that took its name from the Juden, or Jews, who once lived and traded here. When Emperor Maximilian expelled the Jews in 1496, the town went into decline. Not much remains of the medieval ...
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Tratzberg
Country: Austria
A short way from Schwaz, in the Inn river valley, stands the impressive Renaissance Schloss Tratzberg. This castle was once a frontier fortress which guarded Andechs county against the Bavarians. It changed hands many times and is now the private p ...
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Friesach
Country: Austria
Friesach is Carinthia’s oldest town, with a history going back to 860, when the nearby fortress of Petersberg was founded. Traces of the town’s glorious past have survived to this day, including a moated town wall, 820 m (2,690 ft) long, and se ...
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Teatermuseet
Country: Norway
The Theater Museum offers a history of performing arts and theater. It has been a part of the Oslo Museum department since the year 2006. It was established as a foundation in the year 1972. The precursor to this museum was the Christiania Theater ...
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