Worth knowing
Chad
The dust comes from the Bodélé Depression, the floor of an ancient lake. NASA found that Saharan dust carries about 22,000 tons of phosphorus to the Amazon each year, about what the forest loses to rain.
Where its story happens
The Bodélé Depression, at 16.96°N, 17.78°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Chad
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Chad, a landlocked country in north-central Africa, directly south of Libya. See Chad on a map.
- It is named after the big lake on its western border, which it shares with Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon.
- Its flag of blue, yellow and red stripes is almost identical to Romania's.
- A skull about seven million years old, found here, may belong to the earliest known human ancestor.
- Dust from an ancient lake bed in its desert blows across the Atlantic and feeds the Amazon rainforest.