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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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
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Latitude
13.5424° or 13° 32′ 33″ northLongitude
33.6104° or 33° 36′ 37″ eastPopulation
136,000Elevation
427 metres (1,401 feet)Open location code
7G5MGJR6+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 321438810OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
367644Wikidata ID
Q611867
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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”
- Basque: “Sennar”
- Belarusian: “Сенар”
- Catalan: “Sennar”
- Cebuano: “Sinnar”
- Chinese: “森納爾”
- Croatian: “Senar”
- Czech: “Sennár”
- Dutch: “Sennar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سنار”
- Esperanto: “Sennar”
- French: “Sannar”
- French: “Sennar”
- German: “Sannar”
- German: “Sannār”
- 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”
- Thai: “ซินนาร”
- Turkish: “Sennar”
- Ukrainian: “Сеннар”
- Urdu: “سنار، سوڈان”
- Urdu: “سنار”
- Vietnamese: “Sennar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sennar”
- Zulu: “Sennar”
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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 “Sennar”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.