Saras
Saras or Sarras was a 19th-century village in Sudan along the Nile River in the present state of Northern Sudan. It was briefly important as the southern terminus of Isma'il Pasha's abortive 3 ft 6 in railway into Sudan constructed in 1877.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: Town in Sudan
- Also known as: “Saras East”, “Saras, Sudan”, and “Sarras”
Saras
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Northern State, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
21.56667° or 21° 34′ north
Longitude
31.1° or 31° 6′ east
Elevation
197 metres (646 feet)
Open location code
7GHHH38X+MX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Irish—“Saras” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سراس”
- Arabic: “سرّس”
- Irish: “Saras”
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