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Chad is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on September 20, 2007.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
July 17, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
April 23, 2022	Featured article review	Demoted

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Current status: Former featured article

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Text or other creative content from this version of Chad was copied or moved into Food security in Chad with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

On 22 September 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Chad to Chad (country). The result of the discussion was not moved; WP:SNOW closed.

Type of government

Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Isn’t Chad a Unitary semi-presidential republic under an authoritarian hereditary dictatorship? Not just a presidential republic? Scarcsar (talk) 21:34, 21 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

"under an authoritarian hereditary dictatorship" is a label included in very few articles that goes against our point of view policy. Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 21:42, 21 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

There are lots of ways and adjectives that can be used to describe a governmental system, and they can be analysed along many axes, so you may be correct it is many of those things, and it is likely more. However, for the infobox purposes it is identifying the key aspects that is important. "Unitary" for example, seems to be mostly unneeded, as it is somewhat a default and only meaningful when used as a direct comparison with another system like a federal one. CMD (talk) 02:24, 22 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Type of government