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'''Bongor''' ({{langx|ar|بونقور}}) is a city in [[Chad]], the capital of the [[regions of Chad|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 [[Bongor Airport|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 [[Morocco–Congo Treaty|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 == 

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{{Weather box
|location = Bongor
|single line = Yes                                                                
|metric first = Yes
|Jan high F = 93
|Feb high F = 96
|Mar high F = 103
|Apr high F = 107
|May high F = 104
|Jun high F = 100
|Jul high F = 93
|Aug high F =88
|Sep high F = 92
|Oct high F = 98
|Nov high F =98
|Dec high F = 94
|year high F = 97
|Jan low F = 57
|Feb low F = 60
|Mar low F = 67
|Apr low F = 74
|May low F = 77
|Jun low F = 75
|Jul low F = 73
|Aug low F = 72
|Sep low F = 72
|Oct low F = 71
|Nov low F = 63
|Dec low F = 59
|year low F = 
|source 1 = Weatherbase <ref name=Weatherbase>
{{cite web
|url =http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=30746&refer=wikipedia |title =Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Bongor, Chad
|publisher=Weatherbase
|year=2011
}}
Retrieved on November 24, 2011.
</ref>
|date=November 2011
}}
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==Demographics==
{| class="wikitable" 
! Year
! Population<ref>[http://bevoelkerungsstatistik.de/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=de&dat=32&geo=-205&srt=pnan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=x World Gazetteer: Chad] {{webarchive|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 }}</ref>
|-
| 1988
| 19,900
|-	
| 1993 
| 20,448
|-	
| 2008 
| 29,268
|-
| 2010
| 30,518
|}

==See also==
* [[Bongor Arabic]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Populated places in Chad]]
[[Category:Cameroon–Chad border crossings]]
[[Category:Mayo-Kebbi Est Region]]