Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are found in 21 African countries -- from the west coast of the continent to as far east as western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania.

What countries do chimps live in?

Where do chimpanzees live? Chimps have the widest geographic distribution of any great ape, with a range of more than 2.6 million kilometers. They can be found discontinuously from southern Senegal across the forested belt north of the Congo River to western Uganda and western Tanzania.

Do chimpanzees live in Japan?

Nationwide subspecies identification was conducted in 2001, and the results showed that one third of the chimpanzees in Japan are hybrids (about 60% are Pan troglodytes verus and a few are Pt schweinfurthii and Pt troglodytes troglodytes).