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Lake Chad

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Noun1.Lake Chad - a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river
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Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean


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The main culprit is Lake Chad, which has shrunk to 5 percent of its former vast size.
PUBLIC FORUM by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Relations between Nigeria and Cameroon have for years suffered from tensions revolving around the dispute over their 1,600-kilometre land boundary, extending from the Lake Chad area to the Bakassi Peninsula, and the maritime boundary into the Gulf of Guinea.
Bakassi Peninsula by Le Huy Quoc-Benjamin, Nguyen Tang / UN Chronicle
The Aral Sea in Asia, Africa's Lake Chad, and the Great Lakes in North America, for example, are so overused that they are shrinking.
Water, water, everywhere? why are so many taps running dry? (News ... by McCollum, Sean / Junior Scholastic
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