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Place details
- Locality
- Am Timan أم تيمان
- Region
- Salamat سلامات
- Country
- Tchad تشاد
- Population
- 74,691
- Timezone
- Africa/Ndjamena
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Chad
- Region
- Salamat Region
- Department
- Barh Azoum
- Sub prefecture
- Am Timan
- Elevation
- 407 m (1,335 ft)
- Total
- 38,261
- Time zone
- + 1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Am Timan
- Country
- Chad
- Located in
- Barh Azoum
- Population
- 28885
- Elevation
- 439
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Capital of
- Salamat Region
- Image
- Marche du dimanche à AM-TIMAN.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Am Timan (Arabic: أم تيمان, ʾUmm Tīmān) is a city in Chad and is the capital of the region of Salamat. Most of economy comes from Salamat region such as fish, vegetables and anomalies meat, etc. In Arabic, Am Timan means "mother of twins". As the capital of the prefecture, it has the area of many towns and villages around it, including the Zakouma National Park. The city has no university but there are schools and colleges, and a clinic, and hosts a large market day and holiday celebrations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Am Timan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.