Sahel
Sudan
North Kordofan

Umm Ruwaba

Umm Ruwaba, also Umm Ruwabah, is a city in the state of North Kurdufan in and is the capital of the Umm Ruwabah District. By road it is located 147 kilometres southeast of El Obeid, and 184 kilometres west of .
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  • Type: City with 56,800 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Sudan
  • Also known as: “Um Ruaba”, “Um Ruwwāba”, “Umm Ruwābah”, and “أم روّاب”

Umm Ruwaba

Latitude
12.9058° or 12° 54′ 21″ north
Longitude
31.2148° or 31° 12′ 53″ east
Population
56,800
Elevation
457 metres (1,499 feet)
Open location code
7G4HW647+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 248948675
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
364706
Wiki­data ID
Q2618048
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Umm Ruwaba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أم روابة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة أم روابة”
  • Asturian: “Umm Ruwaba”
  • Cebuano: “Umm Ruwaba”
  • Dutch: “Umm Ruwaba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ام روابه”
  • French: “Um Rawaba”
  • German: “Um Rawaba”
  • German: “Umm Rawāba”
  • Italian: “Umm Ruwaba”
  • Italian: “Umm Ruwabah”
  • Persian: “ام روابه”
  • Polish: “Umm Ruwaba”
  • Russian: “Умм-Руваба”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ام روابه”
  • Spanish: “Um Rawaba”
  • Spanish: “Umm Ruwaba”
  • Swahili: “Ruaba”
  • Vietnamese: “Umm Ruwaba”
  • Zulu: “Umm Ruwaba”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Umm Ruwaba”. Photo: Retlaw Snellac, CC BY 2.0.