Bol, Chad
Place in Lac Region, Chad
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Bol (Arabic: بول) is the capital of Chad's Lac Region, lying 152 km to the north of the national capital, N'Djamena. It lay on the shore of Lake Chad before the lake shrank. It is served by Bol Airport (IATA: OTC, ICAO: FTTL), which has a paved runway.
Bol
بول City of a thousand Gods | |
|---|---|
 Bol in 1971 | |
  Bol Location in Chad | |
| Coordinates: 13°27′36″N 14°44′24″E | |
| Country |  Chad |
| Region | Lac Region |
| Department | Mamdi Department |
| Sub-Prefecture | Bol |
| Population (2008) | |
• Total | 11,120 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
Climate
| Climate data for Bol (1961-1990) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.3 (88.3) |
32.7 (90.9) |
35.3 (95.5) |
39.5 (103.1) |
39.0 (102.2) |
37.6 (99.7) |
34.4 (93.9) |
31.5 (88.7) |
35.2 (95.4) |
36.8 (98.2) |
30.4 (86.7) |
28.9 (84.0) |
34.4 (93.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 13.0 (55.4) |
15.9 (60.6) |
19.7 (67.5) |
23.4 (74.1) |
24.6 (76.3) |
24.9 (76.8) |
24.1 (75.4) |
23.1 (73.6) |
23.1 (73.6) |
21.5 (70.7) |
17.0 (62.6) |
14.0 (57.2) |
20.4 (68.7) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.3 (0.01) |
7.5 (0.30) |
19.5 (0.77) |
70.3 (2.77) |
121.4 (4.78) |
38.3 (1.51) |
3.5 (0.14) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
260.8 (10.28) |
| Average rainy days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| Source: WMO[1] | |||||||||||||
Demographics
| Year | Population[2] |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 7,769 |
| 2008 | 11,120 |
| 2017 | 11,701 |
