Tokar
Tokar, also transliterated Tawkar, is a town of 40,000 people near the Red Sea in northeastern Sudan. Tokar Game Reserve lies to the east of the town. The town lies in the delta of the Baraka River. Since the 1860s, cotton has been grown in the delta.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 37,100 residents
- Description: town near the Red Sea in northeastern Sudan
- Also known as: “Ţawkar”, “Tokar, Sudan”, and “توكار”
Tokar
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Red Sea, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
18.43036° or 18° 25′ 49″ northLongitude
37.73393° or 37° 44′ 2″ eastPopulation
37,100Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open location code
7GCVCPJM+4HOpenStreetMap ID
node 2050431482OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
366323Wikidata ID
Q1010754
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tokar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “طوكر (بلدة)”
- Arabic: “طوكر”
- Cebuano: “Tokār”
- Chinese: “陶卡尔”
- Dutch: “Tokar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “طوكر”
- French: “Tokar”
- German: “Taukar”
- German: “Tawkar”
- Irish: “Tokar”
- Italian: “Tokar”
- Persian: “طوکر”
- Polish: “Taukar”
- Polish: “Tokar”
- Russian: “Токар”
- South Azerbaijani: “طوکر”
- Ukrainian: “Токар”
- Vietnamese: “Tokar, Sudan”
- Vietnamese: “Tokar”
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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 “Tokar”. Photo: Retlaw Snellac, CC BY 2.0.