Sudan
Sudan is a country in Northeast Africa and is Africa's third largest country in terms of area. Sudan was the continent's largest country up until the secession of South Sudan in 2011.Tap on the map to travel |
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Khartoum
Khartoum is the capital of Sudan and is located where the Blue and White Niles merge to form the Nile.Darfur
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Darfur is a region of western Sudan. Dār is an Arabic word meaning "home " – the region was named Dardaju while ruled by the Daju, who migrated from Meroë c. 350 AD, and it was renamed Dartunjur when the Tunjur ruled the area.
Meroë
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Meroë is an ancient city along the eastern bank of the Nile River in Northern Sudan, approximately 200 km northeast of Khartoum.
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Northern Sudan
Northern Sudan consists of the three states of Sudan known as Northern, Red Sea and River Nile.Central Sudan
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Central Sudan is the political, geographic, cultural, and economic center of Sudan, centered around the capital, Khartoum.
Kurdufan
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Kordofan is a former province of central Sudan. In 1994 it was divided into three new federal states: North Kordofan, South Kordofan and West Kordofan.
Eastern Sudan
Eastern Sudan is the region of Sudan lying to the east of Khartoum, along the Blue Nile.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Sudan
- Type: Country with 39,400,000 residents
- Description: country in Northeast Africa
- Languages: Arabic, English and Nobiin
- Neighbors: Bi'r Tawīl, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Middle East, South Sudan and Uganda
- Categories: republic, sovereign state, rump state and locality
- Location: Sahel, Africa
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Latitude of centre
13.174° or 13° 10' 26" northLongitude of centre
30.208° or 30° 12' 29" eastPopulation
39,400,000Area
1,861,484 km² (718,723 miles²)Elevation
424 metres (1,391 feet)Capital
KhartoumCurrency
Pound (SDG)Phone code
.sdInternet domain
249OpenStreetMap ID
node 424297973OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
366755Wikidata ID
Q1049Sudan Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Sudan
- Abkhazian: Ареспублика Судан
- Abkhazian: Судан
- Achinese: Sudan
- Adyghe: Судан
- Afar: Sudan
- Afrikaans: Soedan
- Akan: Sudan
- Albanian: Sudan
- Albanian: Sudani
- Algerian Arabic: سودان
- Amharic: Sudan
- Amharic: ሱዳን
- Amis: Sudan
- Angika: सूडान
- Arabic: As Sūdān
- Arabic: Sudan
- Arabic: السودان
- Arabic: جمهورية السودان
- Aragonese: Sudán
- Armenian: Սուդան
- Armenian: Սուտան
- Arpitan: Sodan
- Assamese: চুডান
- Asturian: Sudán
- Avaric: Sudana
- Aymara: Sudan
- Azerbaijani: Sudan
- Balinese: Sudan
- Bambara: Sudan
- Bambara: Sudaŋ
- Banjar: Sudan
- Bashkir: Судан
- Basque: Sudan
- Bavarian: Sudan
- Belarusian: Судан
- Bengali: সুদান
- Bhojpuri: अल-सूडान
- Bhojpuri: उत्तर सूडान
- Bhojpuri: उत्तरी सूडान
- Bhojpuri: दि सूडान
- Bhojpuri: सूडान
- Bishnupriya: সুদান
- Bislama: Sudan
- Bosnian: Sudan
- Breton: Soudan
- Bulgarian: Република Судан
- Bulgarian: Судан
- Burmese: ဆူဒန်
- Burmese: ဆူဒန်နိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: El Sudan
- Catalan: República del Sudan
- Catalan: Sudan
- Cebuano: Sudan
- Central Bikol: Sudan
- Central Kurdish: سوودان
- Chavacano: Sudán
- Chechen: Судан
- Chinese: Sudan
- Chinese: Sūdān
- Chinese: 苏丹
- Chinese: 苏丹共和国
- Chinese: 蘇丹
- Chinese: 蘇丹共和國
- Chuvash: Судан
- Cornish: Soudan
- Corsican: Sudan
- Crimean Tatar: Sudan
- Croatian: Sudan
- Czech: Súdán
- Czech: Súdánská republika
- Dagbani: Sudan
- Danish: Sudan
- Dhivehi: ސޫދާން
- Dimli (individual language): Sudan
- Dinka: Thudän
- Dotyali: सुडान
- Dutch: SD
- Dutch: SDN
- Dutch: Soedan
- Dutch: Sudan
- Dzongkha: སུ་ཌཱན
- Eastern Mari: Судан
- Egyptian Arabic: السودان
- English: North Sudan
- English: Republic of Sudan
- English: Republic of the Sudan
- English: SUD
- English: Soudan
- English: al-Sudan
- English: as-Sudan
- English: as-Sūdān
- English: sd
- English: the Sudan
- Erzya: Судан
- Esperanto: Nord-Sudano
- Esperanto: Respubliko Sudano
- Esperanto: SD
- Esperanto: Sudano
- Estonian: Sudaan
- Estonian: Sudaani Vabariik
- Ewe: Sudan
- Ewe: Sudan nutome
- Ewe: Sudã
- Extremaduran: Sudán
- Farefare: Sudan
- Faroese: Sudan
- Fiji Hindi: Sudan
- Finnish: Sudan
- Finnish: Sudanin tasavalta
- French: SD
- French: Soudan
- French: la République du Soudan
- Fulah: Sudaan
- Fulah: Sudan
- Gagauz: Sudan
- Galician: O Sudán
- Galician: República do Sudán
- Galician: Sudán - السودان
- Galician: Sudán
- Ganda: Sudaani
- Georgian: სუდანი
- German: Republik Sudan
- German: Sudan
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Sudan
- Goan Konkani: सुडान
- Goan Konkani: सुदान
- Greek: Σουδάν
- Guarani: Sudano
- Guarani: Sudã
- Guianese Creole French: Soudan
- Gujarati: સુદાન
- Haitian: Soudan
- Hakka Chinese: Sudan
- Hausa: Sudan
- Hebrew: סודאן
- Hebrew: סודן
- Hindi: उत्तर सूडान
- Hindi: सूडान
- Hungarian: Szudán
- Hungarian: Szudáni Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Súdan
- Ido: Sudan
- Igbo: Sudan
- Iloko: Sudan
- Inari Sami: Sudan
- Inari Sami: Sudan täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Sudan
- Ingush: Судан
- Interlingua: Sudan
- Interlingue: Sudan
- Irish: An tSúdáin
- Irish: Poblacht na Súdáine
- Irish: an tSúdáin
- Italian: Repubblica del Sudan
- Italian: Sudan
- Jamaican Creole English: Sudan
- Japanese: スーダン
- Japanese: スーダン共和国
- Javanese: Sudan
- Kabardian: Судан
- Kabiyè: Sudaanɩ
- Kabyle: Sudan
- Kalaallisut: Avannarleqsudan
- Kalmyk: Суданмудин Орн
- Kannada: ಸುಡಾನ್
- Kannada: ಸೂಡಾನ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Sudan
- Kashmiri: سوٗڈان
- Kazakh: Судан
- Kazakh: Сұдан
- Khmer: ស៊ូដង់
- Kikuyu: Sudani
- Kikuyu: Sũdana
- Kinyarwanda: Sudani
- Kirghiz: Судан
- Kongo: Sudan
- Korean: 수단
- Kotava: Sudana
- Kurdish: Sudan
- Kurdish: Sûdan
- Kurdish: سوودان
- Ladin: Sudan
- Ladino: Sudan
- Lao: Sudan
- Lao: ຊູດານ
- Latin: Sudania
- Latvian: Sudāna
- Lezghian: Судан
- Ligurian: Sudan
- Limburgan: Soedan
- Lingala: Sudani
- Lingala: Sudá
- Lingua Franca Nova: Sudan
- Literary Chinese: 蘇丹
- Lithuanian: Sudanas
- Livvi: Sudan
- Lojban: sudan
- Lombard: Sudan
- Low German: Soedan
- Low German: Sudan
- Lower Sorbian: Sudan
- Luba-Katanga: Suda
- Luxembourgish: Sudan
- Macedo-Romanian: Sudan
- Macedonian: Судан
- Madurese: Sudan
- Maithili: उत्तर सूडान
- Maithili: सूडान
- Malagasy: Sodan
- Malagasy: Sodana
- Malagasy: Sodàna
- Malay: Sudan
- Malayalam: സുഡാൻ
- Maltese: Repubblika tas-Sudan
- Maltese: Sudan
- Maltese: is-Sudan
- Manipuri: ꯁꯨꯗꯥꯟ
- Manx: Yn Toodaan
- Maori: Hūtāne
- Marathi: सुदान
- Mazanderani: سودان
- Min Dong Chinese: Sudan
- Min Nan Chinese: Sudan
- Minangkabau: Sudan
- Mingrelian: სუდანი
- Mirandese: Sudan
- Moksha: Судан
- Mongolian: Судан
- Mongolian: ꯁꯨꯗꯥꯟ
- Moroccan Arabic: السودان
- Moroccan Arabic: سودان
- Nauru: Tudan
- Navajo: Ásáí Dineʼé Daalzhiní Bikéyah
- Nepali: सुडान
- Nepali: सुदान
- Newari: सुदान
- North Ndebele: Sudani
- Northern Frisian: Sudaan
- Northern Sami: Davvisudan
- Northern Sami: Sudan
- Northern Sami: Sudana dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Sudan dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Sudan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Sudan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sudan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sudan
- Novial: Sudan
- Nyanja: Sudan
- Occitan (post 1500): Sodan
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܣܘܕܐܢ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Sudan
- Oriya: ସୁଦାନ
- Oromo: Sudaan
- Ossetian: Судан
- Pali: सूडान
- Pampanga: Sudan
- Panjabi: ਸੁਡਾਨ
- Panjabi: ਸੂਡਾਨ
- Papiamento: Sudan
- Pedi: Sudan
- Pennsylvania German: Sudan
- Persian: سودان
- Persian: سودان شمالی
- Piemontese: Sudan
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Sudan
- Polish: Sudan
- Portuguese: Sudão
- Pushto: سوډان
- Quechua: Sudan
- Quechua: Sudán
- Quechua: Suthan
- Rakhine: ဆူဒန်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
- Romanian: Sudan
- Romansh: Sudan
- Rundi: Sudani
- Russia Buriat: Судан
- Russian: Республика Судан
- Russian: Судан
- Rusyn: Судан
- Sakizaya: Sudan
- Samoan: Sudan
- Samogitian: Sudans
- Sango: Sudäan
- Sanskrit: सूडान
- Santali: ᱥᱩᱫᱟᱱ
- Saraiki: سوڈان
- Sardinian: Sudan
- Saterfriesisch: Sudan
- Scots: Sudan
- Scottish Gaelic: Sudan
- Scottish Gaelic: Sudàn
- Serbian: Sudan
- Serbian: Судан
- Serbo-Croatian: Sudan
- Shan: မိူင်းသူႇတၼ်ႇ
- Shona: Sudan
- Shona: Sudhani
- Sicilian: Sudan
- Silesian: Sudan
- Sindhi: سوڊان
- Sinhala: සුඩානය
- Sinhala: සූඩානය
- Skolt Sami: Sudaan
- Skolt Sami: Sudaan tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Sudán
- Slovak: Sudánska republika
- Slovenian: Sudan
- Somali: Suudaan
- South Azerbaijani: سودان
- Southern Sotho: Sudan
- Spanish: Republica de Sudan
- Spanish: República de Sudán
- Spanish: Sudan
- Spanish: Sudán
- Sundanese: Sudan
- Swahili: Sudan
- Swahili: Sudani
- Swati: ISudani
- Swedish: Nordsudan
- Swedish: Republiken Sudan
- Swedish: Sudan
- Swiss German: Sudan
- Tagalog: Sudan
- Tajik: Судон
- Talysh: Sudan
- Tamil: சூடான்
- Taroko: Sudan
- Tatar: Судан
- Telugu: సూడాన్
- Thai: ซูดาน
- Thai: ประเทศซูดาน
- Tibetan: སུ་དཱན།
- Tibetan: སུའུ་ཏན།
- Tigrinya: ሱዳን
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Sūteni
- Tosk Albanian: Sudan
- Tsonga: Sudan
- Tumbuka: Sudan
- Tunisian Arabic: السودان
- Turkish: Sudan
- Turkmen: Sudan
- Twi: Sudan
- Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Sudan wu
- Tyap: Sudan
- Udmurt: Судан
- Uighur: سۇدان
- Ukrainian: Республіка Судан
- Ukrainian: Судан
- Upper Sorbian: Republika Sudan
- Upper Sorbian: Sudan
- Urdu: سوڈان
- Uzbek: Sudan
- Venetian: Sudan
- Veps: Sudan
- Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Sudan
- Vietnamese: Sudan
- Vietnamese: Xu-đăng
- Vietnamese: Xuđăng (Sudan)
- Vlaams: Soedan
- Vlax Romani: Sudan
- Volapük: Sudän
- Võro: Sudaan
- Waray (Philippines): Sudan
- Welsh: Sudan
- Welsh: Swdan
- Welsh: Y Swdan
- Western Armenian: Սուտան
- Western Balochi: سوڈان
- Western Frisian: Soedan
- Western Frisian: Sûdan
- Western Mari: Судан
- Western Panjabi: سوڈان
- Wolof: Sudaan
- Wolof: Sudaŋ
- Wu Chinese: 苏丹
- Yakut: Судаан
- Yakut: Судан
- Yiddish: סודאַן
- Yiddish: סודאן
- Yoruba: Sudan
- Yoruba: Sudani
- Yue Chinese: 蘇丹
- Zeeuws: Soedan
- Zhuang: Sudan
- Zulu: ISudan
- Zulu: i-Sudan
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- Es Sūdān el Inglīzi el Masri
- Jamhuryat el-Sudan
- Jumhūrīyat as Sūdān
- Jumhūrīyat as Sūdān ad Dīmuqrāţīyah
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Sudan. Photo: Retlaw Snellac, CC BY 2.0.