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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Sango of Chad

The Sango of Chad, numbering approximately 58,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an Adamawa-Ubangi ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Ubangi reiver are of the Central African Republic They are an Diaspora people, with Sango as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Adamawa-Ubangi people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion. They primarily speak Sango.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Sango

Fast Facts*:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Chad
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Sango (sag)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 58,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG011446
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Pray for the Sango of Chad

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

50%
%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Sango
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Sango Speakers

Media Resources in Sango:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Sango:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Sango bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Sango are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Sango:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Sango of Chad

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
readPsalm 1:6

As many look for hope in worldly pleasures, pray they will hear and accept salvation through Christ, turn from destruction, and experience joy in the way of righteousness.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
readActs 18:8

Pray that rulers and leaders will access the gospel, respond in faith, and be baptized, uniting with Christ and His Church, and influence others to follow Him.

But Jesus called them to him, saying "Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God."
readLuke 18:16

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have a burden to share the hope of Christ with children.

"Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."
readJohn 7:38

Ask God to raise up believers and sustain them as they cross cultures to share hope with those who need it. Pray that many might come to know Christ and that streams of living water will flow from their hearts so they will never thirst again.

Sango Across Countries (ROP3 - 108648) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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4 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
SangoPG012925SangoCentral African Republic499,000Engaged yet UnreachedSangoProtestantism
SangoPG013016SangoCongo138,000Engaged yet UnreachedSangoProtestantism
SangoPG011446SangoChad58,500No Longer UnreachedSangoEthnoreligion
SangoPG014717SangoCongo, Democratic Republic of the2,100No Longer UnreachedSangoRoman Catholicism

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

*Peoplegroups.org relies on updates from the field and other organizations for much of our data, so if you have any updates, please contact us. We use various international naming standards. For a list of these standards and fields, visit our Data Standards section.

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