Bongor

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title: "Bongor" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-chad", "cameroon–chad-border-crossings", "mayo-kebbi-est"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-chad" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongor" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
	official_name
native_name	بونقور
settlement_type	City
image_skyline	Fiume Logone a Bongor Ciad aprile 2004 img288.jpg
image_caption	The Logone River in Bongor
pushpin_map	Chad
pushpin_mapsize	280
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Chad
pushpin_relief	1
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Mayo-Kebbi Est
subdivision_type2	Department
subdivision_name2	Mayo-Boneye
subdivision_type3	Sub-Prefecture
subdivision_name3	Bongor
unit_pref	Imperial
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2010
population_total	30,518
population_blank1_title	Ethnicities
population_blank2_title	Religions
timezone	WAT
utc_offset	+01:00
coordinates
elevation_m	315
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|area_water_km2 = |area_total_sq_mi = |area_land_sq_mi = |area_water_sq_mi = |area_water_percent = |area_urban_km2 = |area_urban_sq_mi = |area_metro_km2 = |area_metro_sq_mi = |area_blank1_title = |area_blank1_km2 = |area_blank1_sq_mi = |population_as_of = 2010 |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total = 30,518 |population_density_km2 = |population_density_sq_mi = |population_metro = |population_density_metro_km2 = |population_density_metro_sq_mi = |population_urban = |population_density_urban_km2 = |population_density_urban_sq_mi = |population_blank1_title =Ethnicities |population_blank1 = |population_blank2_title =Religions |population_blank2 = |population_density_blank1_km2 = |population_density_blank1_sq_mi = |timezone = WAT |utc_offset = +01:00 |timezone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |coordinates = |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = 315 |elevation_ft = |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }} Bongor () is a city in Chad, the capital of the region of Mayo-Kebbi Est. It is located on the eastern bank of the Logone River. During the rainy season (May–September), the Logone is navigable between Bongor and N'Djamena, Chad's capital. The population is 29,268 (2008).

Bongor has a lively central market square, an airport, a post office, a hospital, and the administrative offices for the Mayo-Kebbi Prefecture. Cotton and rice are the primary cash crops of the region. There is a hotel on the bank of the Logone. The principal market day is Monday and people come from the entire region for the weekly market.

Bongor was a part of German Cameroon until the 1911 German-French Treaty. In 1904, a military station was founded near Bongor by German colonial officer Herbert Kund, constituting the beginning of the city's modern history. The primary indigenous tribal group are the Masa people. The city has been an important centre of secondary education since colonial times. The Lycée Jacques Moudeina is located in the city and many of the future leaders of the nations that became independent after the dissolution of the colony of French Equatorial Africa attended the Lycée.

Climate

Demographics

::data[format=table] | Year | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523231911/http://bevoelkerungsstatistik.de/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=de&dat=32&geo=-205&srt=pnan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=x |date=2011-05-23 }} | |---|---| | 1988 | 19,900 | | 1993 | 20,448 | | 2008 | 29,268 | | 2010 | 30,518 | ::

References

link. (2011-05-23)

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