Camels among the sandstone of the Ennedi Plateau, Chad

Who needs a visa for Chad?

Sub-Saharan Africa · N'Djamena

Photo: Valerian Guillot from Cambridge, United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

Of 198 nationalities, 16 enter Chad with no paperwork at all. The rest: 182 must be approved before they travel.

We have not found a Chad government portal we can link to with confidence, so we link to none — a lookalike is worse than nothing. Apply through Chad's own immigration service or its embassy.

What do you need?

Who needs what

Visa free 16

Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.

eVisa (electronic visa) 182

A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.

About Chad

Region
Middle Africa
Capital
N'Djamena
Population
21,003,705 2025 · 63rd of 197
Size
1,284,000 km² 20th largest of 199
Density
16 per km²
Languages
Arabic, French
Currency
Central African CFA franc XAF

Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.