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Vinony's link graph records 24 inbound references to Pala, and connects out to Arabic, Chad and time zone.
It sits within the topics Catholic Church in Chad, Mayo-Kebbi Ouest Region and Populated places in Chad.
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- Locality
- Pala بالا
- Region
- Mayo-Kebbi Ouest مايو كيبي الغربية
- Country
- Tchad تشاد
- Population
- 70,677
- Timezone
- Africa/Ndjamena
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Key facts
- Country
- Chad
- Region
- Mayo-Kebbi Ouest
- Department
- Mayo-Dallah
- Sub prefecture
- Pala
- Elevation
- 457 m (1,499 ft)
- Total
- 40,202
- Time zone
- +1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Pala
- Country
- Chad
- Located in
- Mayo-Dallah
- Population
- 40202
- Elevation
- 457
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Capital of
- Mayo-Kebbi Ouest Region
- Image
- Cattedrale di Pala (Ciad).jpg
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- native label
- Pala
- P12749
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Encyclopedic overview
Pala (Arabic: بالا) is a town in Chad and the capital of the region of Mayo-Kebbi Ouest. The Fula language is spoken in the area. The Roman Catholic bishopric of Pala served Mayo-Kebbi Prefecture, in 1970, Pala included 116,000 of Chad's 160,000 Catholics.
It has the country's first gold mine, opened by the South Korean company Afko. However, cotton picking is the main industry in the area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pala” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.