Northern State
Northern State is one of the 18 wilayat of Sudan and the largest by area. It has an area of 348,765 km2 and an estimated population of 936,255. The area that comprises present-day Northern State was known in ancient times as Nubia.- Type: state of Sudan with 936,000 residents
- Description: state of Sudan
- Also known as: “Al Iqlīm ash Shamālī”, “Al Iqlim ash Shimali”, “Al Wilāyah ash Shamālīyah”, “Al Wilāyah ash Shimālīyah”, “Ash Shamālīyah”, “Ash Shimālīyah”, “Ash Shimālīyya”, “ash-Shamaliyah”, “Northern”, “The Northern State”, and “Wilāyah ash Shimālīyya”
Northern State
- Location: Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Northern State” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሰሜናዊ ግዛት”
- Arabic: “الشمالية”
- Arabic: “الولاية الشمالية”
- Arabic: “ولاية الشمالية”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimal Dövləti”
- Basque: “Ipar Sudan”
- Basque: “Iparraldea”
- Basque: “Iparraldeko eskualdea (Sudan)”
- Basque: “Iparraldeko estatua”
- Basque: “Iparraldeko probintzia (Sudan)”
- Basque: “Sudango Iparraldea”
- Bengali: “সামালিয়াহ্ রাজ্য”
- Bulgarian: “Северна провинция”
- Catalan: “Ash Shamaliyah”
- Catalan: “Ash-Shamaliyah”
- Catalan: “estat del Nord”
- Catalan: “Estat del Nord”
- Catalan: “Estat Septentrional”
- Catalan: “Nord de Sudan”
- Catalan: “Província del Nord (Sudan)”
- Catalan: “Província Septentrional (Sudan)”
- Catalan: “Regio del Nord (Sudan)”
- Catalan: “Regió del Nord (Sudan)”
- Catalan: “Regió Nord (Sudan)”
- Catalan: “Regio Septentrional (Sudan)”
- Catalan: “Sudan del Nord”
- Cebuano: “Northern”
- Chinese: “北方州”
- Chinese: “北部州”
- Chinese: “北部省”
- Croatian: “Sjever”
- Czech: “Severní stát”
- Danish: “Nordlige Sudan”
- Dutch: “Ash-Shamaliyah”
- Dutch: “Noord”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الولايه الشماليه”
- Esperanto: “Aŝ Ŝamalijah”
- Esperanto: “Norda”
- Esperanto: “SD-01”
- Esperanto: “SD-NO”
- Finnish: “Aš-Šamaliya”
- Finnish: “Northern”
- French: “Ach Chamaliyah”
- French: “Ach-Chamaliyah”
- French: “État du Nord”
- French: “Nord”
- Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთის შტატი”
- German: “Asch-Schamaliya”
- German: “Asch-Schamaliyya”
- German: “Ash Shamaliyah”
- German: “Norden”
- German: “Schamālīya”
- German: “SD-01”
- German: “SD-NO”
- Greek: “Νόρθερν”
- Gujarati: “નોર્થન”
- Hausa: “Jihar ta Arewa”
- Hebrew: “א-שימאליה”
- Hindi: “उत्तरी”
- Indonesian: “Ash Shamaliyah”
- Indonesian: “Asy-Syamaliyah”
- Italian: “Nord”
- Japanese: “北部州”
- Javanese: “Negara Lor”
- Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರದ”
- Kazakh: “Түндік мемлекеті”
- Kirghiz: “Түндүк Мамлекети”
- Korean: “북부주”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļu vilājs”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės vilajetas”
- Malay: “Asy-Syamaliyah”
- Malay: “Wilayah Utara”
- Marathi: “नॉर्थर्न”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuurd (Bundesstoot uun Sudaan)”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuurd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord”
- Oromo: “Mootummaa Kaaba”
- Panjabi: “ਉਤਰੀ ਰਾਜ”
- Persian: “ایالت شمالی سودان”
- Persian: “شمالی”
- Persian: “شمالیه”
- Polish: “Asz-Szamalija”
- Polish: “Asz-Szamalijja”
- Polish: “Prowincja Północna”
- Portuguese: “Ash-shamaliyah”
- Portuguese: “Estado do Norte”
- Portuguese: “Norte”
- Pushto: “شمالی ایالت”
- Romanian: “Statul de Nord”
- Russian: “Северная провинция”
- Russian: “Северный штат”
- Russian: “Эш-Шамалия”
- Scots: “Northren”
- Serbian: “Север”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverni Vilajet”
- Sinhala: “උතුරු ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “නොදර්න්”
- Slovenian: “SD-01”
- Slovenian: “Sever”
- Slovenian: “Severna država”
- Somali: “Gobolka Woqooyi”
- South Azerbaijani: “قوزئی ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Ash Shamahyah”
- Spanish: “Ash Shamaliyah”
- Spanish: “Estado Norte”
- Spanish: “Norte”
- Swahili: “Kaskazini, Sudan”
- Swahili: “Kaskazini”
- Swedish: “al-Shamaliyya”
- Swedish: “Ash-Shamaliyya, Sudan”
- Swedish: “ash-Shamaliyya”
- Swedish: “Ash-Shamaliyya”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Шимолӣ”
- Tamil: “வடக்கு”
- Tatar: “Төньяк Дәүләте”
- Tatar: “Төньяк штат”
- Telugu: “ఉత్తర”
- Thai: “รัฐอัชชะมาลียะฮ์”
- Turkish: “Kuzey Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Kuzey”
- Ukrainian: “Північний штат”
- Urdu: “شمالی (اسٹیٹ)”
- Urdu: “شمالی (ریاست)”
- Urdu: “شمالی”
- Uzbek: “Shimoliy Davlat”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Phía Bắc”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amihanan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Northern”
- Western Armenian: “Հիւսիսային նահանգ”
- Western Panjabi: “اتلا صوبہ”
- Zulu: “Northern (isifundazwe), Sudan”
- Zulu: “Northern, Sudan”
- Zulu: “Northern”
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