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Kalāyat
Bir Kalait or Bir Kalaït, informally called Kalait and formerly considered part of another town, Oum-Chalouba, is a town in Kalait Subprefecture, Mourtcha Department, on the regional border of the Wadi Fira and Ennedi Ouest regions of Chad. The 'Bir' in its name implies it's populated because of the presence of wells that were originally found at its location in the middle of the Sahara. These wells historically hosted hundreds of families of Toubou and Arab nomadic herders who considered Kalait a buffer zone between the Sahara and the Sahel. As of the 2009 census, Kalait had a population of 21,313 people; 12,050 men and 9,263 women.
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- Population: 18,660.
- Timezone: Asia/Kolkata.