Shendi
Shendi or Shandi is a small city in northern Sudan, situated on the southeastern bank of the Nile River 150 km northeast of Khartoum. Shandi is also about 45 km southwest of the ancient city of Meroë.- Type: City with 63,700 residents
- Description: human settlement in Sudan
- Also known as: “Shendi Old Town”, “Shindi”, “Shindî”, and “شندي (مدينة)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Shendi Airport.
Shendi
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: River Nile, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
16.6885° or 16° 41′ 19″ north
Longitude
33.4323° or 33° 25′ 56″ east
Population
63,700
Elevation
366 metres (1,201 feet)
Open location code
7G8MMCQJ+9W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Shendi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شندي”
- Belarusian: “Шэндзі”
- Bengali: “শেন্ডি”
- Breton: “Chendi”
- Catalan: “Xendi”
- Cebuano: “Shendi”
- Chinese: “沉迪”
- Danish: “Shendi”
- Dutch: “Shendi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شندى”
- Finnish: “Shendi”
- French: “Chendi”
- German: “Schandi”
- Greek: “Σέντι”
- Gujarati: “શેંડી”
- Hindi: “शेंडी”
- Indonesian: “Shendi”
- Irish: “Shendi”
- Italian: “Shendi”
- Japanese: “シェンディ”
- Kannada: “ಶೆಂಡಿ”
- Korean: “셴디”
- Latvian: “Šendi”
- Lithuanian: “Šendis”
- Malay: “Shendi”
- Marathi: “शेंडी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shendi”
- Persian: “شندی”
- Polish: “Szandi”
- Portuguese: “Shendi”
- Portuguese: “Xendi”
- Romanian: “Shandi, Sudan”
- Romanian: “Shandi”
- Russian: “Шенди”
- Serbian: “Шенди”
- Sinhala: “ෂෙන්ඩි”
- South Azerbaijani: “شندی”
- Spanish: “Shendi”
- Swahili: “Shendi”
- Swedish: “Shendi”
- Tamil: “செண்டி”
- Telugu: “షిన్డి”
- Thai: “เชนดิ”
- Turkish: “Shendi”
- Ukrainian: “Шенді”
- Urdu: “شندی”
- Vietnamese: “Shendi”
- Zulu: “Shendi”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Shendi and Humeirab.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Shendi station and سكة حديدالسودان.
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