Sennar
Sennar is a city on the Blue Nile in Sudan and possibly the capital of the state of Sennar. For several centuries it was the capital of the Funj Kingdom of Sennar and until at least 2011, Sennar was the capital of Sennar State.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: City with 136,000 residents
- Description: Town in Sennar State, Sudan
- Also known as: “Mok-waar”, “Sannar”, “Sengs”, “Sennaar”, “Sennār”, “Sennar al-Madina”, “Sinja”, and “Sinnar”
Sennar
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sennar, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.5424° or 13° 32′ 33″ north
Longitude
33.6104° or 33° 36′ 37″ east
Population
136,000
Elevation
427 metres (1,401 feet)
Open location code
7G5MGJR6+X4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Sennar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سنار (مدينة)”
- Arabic: “سنار”
- Asturian: “Sengs”
- Basque: “Sennar”
- Belarusian: “Сенар”
- Breton: “Sennar”
- Catalan: “Sennar”
- Cebuano: “Sinnar”
- Chinese: “森納爾”
- Croatian: “Senar”
- Czech: “Sennár”
- Danish: “Sennar (by)”
- Danish: “Sennar”
- Dutch: “Sennar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سنار”
- Esperanto: “Sennar”
- French: “Sannar”
- French: “Sennar”
- German: “Sannar”
- German: “Sannār”
- Hebrew: “סנאר”
- Irish: “Sennar”
- Italian: “Sannār”
- Italian: “Sennar”
- Japanese: “センナール”
- Korean: “센나르”
- Lithuanian: “Senaras”
- Malay: “Sennar”
- Mingrelian: “სენარი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sennar”
- Norwegian: “Sennar”
- Persian: “سنار”
- Polish: “Sannar”
- Portuguese: “Senar (cidade)”
- Portuguese: “Senar”
- Romanian: “Sennar”
- Russian: “Сеннар”
- Serbian: “Сенар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sennar”
- Slovenian: “Senar”
- South Azerbaijani: “سنار”
- Spanish: “Sennar”
- Swahili: “Sennar”
- Tajik: “Сеннар”
- Thai: “ซินนาร”
- Turkish: “Sennar”
- Ukrainian: “Сеннар”
- Urdu: “سنار، سوڈان”
- Urdu: “سنار”
- Vietnamese: “Sennar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sennar”
- Zulu: “Sennar”
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