As of 2013 Chad had an estimated 59 airports, only 9 of which had paved runways. An international airport serves the capital and provides regular nonstop flights to Paris and several African cities.
Flag of Chad:
The flag of Chad is a vertical tricolor consisting (left to right) of a blue, a gold and a red column. These were intended to be a combination of the colors of blue, white and red as seen on the Flag of France with the Pan-African colors of green, yellow and red. Furthermore, the blue represents the sky and hope; the gold is the sun and desert, and the red signifies the bloodshed over independence.
The flag was adopted by law no. 59/13 for the autonomous republic and retained on independence in 1960, and in the constitution of 1962. Despite many political upheavals within Chad since independence, the flag has not been changed. This may be because the flag is not associated with any of the main power rivals within Chad, which had no sense of national identity before independence, and little after independence.
The flag of Chad is almost identical to the national flag of Romania, although the colors in Chad flags may vary more than those specified for Romania. Romania has used the flag since 1866, which appeared for the first time in its current form in Wallachia, being officially in use in 1848. Chad began to use its present flag in 1960, after it achieved independence from France. When Chad adopted its flag, Romania’s flag was different: it used to feature an insignia in the middle of the flag on top of the tricolor; this was added after World War II during the Communist era of the second half of the 20th century. But in 1989 Romania’s Communist government was overthrown and the insignia was removed, reverting Romania’s flag to the prewar version which matched the one which had been adopted by Chad in the meantime.
The issue of Romania and Chad sharing similar flags has concerned the Chadian government on occasion; they requested in 2004 that the United Nations should consider it an issue. In response, Romanian President Ion Iliescu said to the media, “The tricolor belongs to us. We will not give up the tricolor.”