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Sennar

Sennar

Sennar is a city on the in 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 .
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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

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
node 321438810
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
367644
Wiki­data ID
Q611867
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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.