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Place details
- Locality
- Mongo منقو
- Region
- Guéra قيرا
- Country
- Tchad تشاد
- Population
- 53,768
- Timezone
- Africa/Ndjamena
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Chad
- Region
- Guéra Region
- Department
- Guéra Department
- Sub prefecture
- Mongo
- Elevation
- 404 m (1,325 ft)
- Total
- 40,233
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( WAT )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mongo (Arabic: مونقو, Mūnqū) is a city and sub-prefecture in Chad, the capital of the region of Guéra. Located in the northern part of the region, it lies 252.2 miles (406 km) by road east of the capital N'Djamena. It is served by Mongo Airport.
On 11 April 2006, rebels of the United Front for Democratic Change (FUC) took the central city.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mongo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.