Key facts
- Country
- Chad
- Regional capital
- Mao
- Governor
- Ngamai Djari (2008)
- Total
- 354,603
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( WAT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Chad
- Named after
- Kanem Empire
- Country
- Chad
- Located in
- Chad
- Contains
- Wadi Bissam
- Capital
- Mao
- Population
- 354603
- Area
- 114520
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- topic's main category
- Category:Kanem (region)
- Commons category
- Kanem Region
- language used
- Teda
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Encyclopedic overview
14°07′10″N 15°18′48″E / 14.1194°N 15.3133°E / 14.1194; 15.3133
Kanem (Arabic: كانم) is one of the 23 regions of Chad. It is named after the famous Kanem Empire, which was centred in this vicinity. The region's capital is Mao. It was created in 2002 from the former prefecture of Kanem. In 2008, a portion of the Kanem region (the Bahr el Gazel Department) was split off to become the new Bahr el Gazel Region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kanem Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.