According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

In 1981 the two countries went to the brink of war over Bakassi and another area around Lake Chad, at the other end of the two countries ' common border.

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

The Kanem Empire originated in the 9th century AD to the northeast of Lake Chad.

Finally, around 1396 the Bulala invaders forced Mai Umar Idrismi to abandon Njimi and move the Kanembu people to Bornu on the western edge of Lake Chad.

Government forces clashed violently with rebel forces, including the Movement for Democracy and Development, MDD, National Revival Committee for Peace and Democracy ( CSNPD ), Chadian National Front ( FNT ) and the Western Armed Forces ( FAO ), near Lake Chad and in southern regions of the country.

The country's topography is generally flat, with the elevation gradually rising as one moves north and east away from Lake Chad.

The Ennedi Plateau and the Ouaddaï highlands in the east complete the image of a gradually sloping basin, which descends towards Lake Chad.

Lake Chad is the second largest lake in west Africa and is one of the most important wetlands on the continent.

Bordered by Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon, Lake Chad currently covers only 1350 square kilometers, down from 25, 000 square kilometers in 1963.

The Chari and Logone Rivers, both of which originate in the Central African Republic and flow northward, provide most of the surface water entering Lake Chad.

Although Chadian society is economically, socially, and culturally fragmented, the country's geography is unified by the Lake Chad Basin.

Once a huge inland sea ( the Pale-Chadian Sea ) whose only remnant is shallow Lake Chad, this vast depression extends west into Nigeria and Niger.

North and northeast of Lake Chad, the basin extends for more than 800 kilometers, passing through regions characterized by great rolling dunes separated by very deep depressions.

Southeast of Lake Chad, the regular contours of the terrain are broken by the Guéra Massif, which divides the basin into its northern and southern parts.

South of the Chadian border, the koros divide the Lake Chad Basin from the Ubangi-Zaire river system.

Chari RiverChad's major rivers are the Chari and the Logone and their tributaries, which flow from the southeast into Lake Chad.

At N ' Djamena the Logone empties into the Chari, and the combined rivers flow together for thirty kilometers through a large delta and into Lake Chad.

The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.

Lake Chad also changes greatly in size from one year to another.

The droughts of the late 1960s, early 1970s, and mid-1980s caused Lake Chad to shrink once again, however.

The only other lakes of importance in Chad are Lake Fitri, in Batha Prefecture, and Lake Iro, in the marshy southeast.

No matter how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been, for example, they could never have created anything approaching the fifty square-mile Lake Texoma, located between Texas and Oklahoma, which resulted when the Corp of Army Engineers dammed the Red River.

Björkö is located in Lake Mälaren, 30 kilometers west of contemporary Stockholm, in the municipality of Ekerö.

* Lake Bruin, ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in northeastern Louisiana

* Watson Lake Cone, a cinder cone in southern Yukon, Canada, located near the British Columbia-Yukon border

Dominant features are the large, almost centrally located, Tonle Sap ( Great Lake ) and the Mekong River, which traverses the country from north to south and is the 12th longest river in the world.

The city of Ithaca, New York, site of Ithaca College and Cornell University, is located at the southern end of Cayuga Lake.

Cayuga Lake is located at ; above sea level.

The commercial center of the city is located on the eastern edge of Lake Cadillac.

The stadium is located next to Lake Michigan, and was recently remodeled in a modernization intended to update stadium amenities while preserving a historic Chicago structure.

They are also known as " The North Siders " because Wrigley Field, their home park since 1916, is located in Chicago's north side Lake View community at 1060 West Addison Street.

Chicago is located in northeastern Illinois on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan.

* Lake Coleridge, a lake located in Canterbury, New Zealand

* Lake Edward: located within national parks, settlements are small, water transport is conducted principally in small craft, commercial water transport is absent.

One of the largest springs, Boiling Lake, is located in the national park.

During the Middle Ages, the Old Prussian settlement of Truso was located at Lake Drużno near the current site of Elbląg in historical Pogesania ; the settlement burned down in the 10th century.

The Old City () is located on the river Elbląg connecting Lake Drużno to the Vistula Lagoon, about 10 km from the lagoon and 60 km from Gdańsk.

Cazenovia Lake to the east, although smaller, is sometimes called " the twelfth Finger Lake ," because it is similar in shape, located in Appalachian hill terrain, with a historic village linked to other Finger Lakes by US 20.

Onondaga Lake, though located just north of the Finger Lakes region, is not considered one of the Finger Lakes.

The muckland of a valley located in Potter, New York, which is part of Torrey Farms, was almost a twelfth Finger Lake, as the waterline is just below the surface.

" Of the five lakes, Lake Michigan is the only one that is located entirely within the United States ; the others form a water border between the United States and Canada.

Geneva is located at 46 ° 12 ' North, 6 ° 09 ' East, at the south-western end of Lake Geneva, where the lake flows back into the Rhône River.

Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, located in the southeastern portion of the Chicago metropolitan area.