Ad-Damazin

Ad-Damazin is the capital city of Blue Nile, . It is the location of the and power generation plant. Ad-Damazin is served by a terminal station of a branch line of the national railway network.
Wikipedia
  • Type: City with 213,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Blue Nile state of Sudan
  • Also known as: “Ad Damāzīn”, “Al-Damazeen”, and “Ed Damazin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roseires Dam.

Dam
Photo: Simon240, CC BY 3.0.
The is a dam on the at Ad Damazin, just upstream of the town of , in . It consists of a concrete buttress dam 1 km wide with a maximum height of 68 m, and an earth dam on either side.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Er Roseires.

Town
is a town in eastern 60 km from the border with Ethiopia. Lord Prudhoe mentions this town in the 1829 diary he kept while travelling in the Sennar.

Ad-Damazin

Latitude
11.8074° or 11° 48′ 27″ north
Longitude
34.3656° or 34° 21′ 56″ east
Population
213,000
Elevation
485 metres (1,591 feet)
IATA airport code
RSS
Open location code
7G3PR948+W7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 300077759
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
380174
Wiki­data ID
Q311307
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Ad-Damazin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الدمازين”
  • Asturian: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Bengali: “এড ডামাজিন”
  • Breton: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Bulgarian: “Ад Дамазин”
  • Bulgarian: “Ад-Дамазин”
  • Cebuano: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Chinese: “达马津”
  • Chinese: “達馬津”
  • Croatian: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Czech: “Damázín”
  • Danish: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Danish: “Ad-Damāzīn”
  • Dutch: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الدمازين”
  • Esperanto: “Ed Damazin”
  • Finnish: “Ad-Damazin”
  • French: “Ad-Damazin”
  • French: “Al-Damazin”
  • French: “Ed Damazin”
  • Fulah: “Ad- Damazin”
  • German: “Ad-Damazin”
  • German: “Ed Damazin”
  • Greek: “Αντ-Νταμαζίν”
  • Gujarati: “એડ-ડૅમાઝિન”
  • Hindi: “अद-दमाज़िन”
  • Hungarian: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Indonesian: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Irish: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Italian: “Ad Damazin”
  • Italian: “Al-Damazin”
  • Italian: “Al-Damāzīn”
  • Japanese: “ダマジン”
  • Kannada: “ಅದ್-ದಮಾಝಿನ್”
  • Korean: “아드 다마진”
  • Latvian: “Ad Damazina”
  • Lithuanian: “Ad Damazinas”
  • Malay: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Marathi: “अॅड-डॅमाझिन”
  • Mingrelian: “ედ-დამაზინი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Norwegian: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Persian: “الدمازین”
  • Polish: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Portuguese: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Portuguese: “Damazin”
  • Romanian: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Romanian: “Ed Damazin”
  • Russian: “Эд-Дамазин”
  • Serbian: “Ed Damazin”
  • Serbian: “Ед Дамазин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ed Damazin”
  • Sinhala: “අඩ් -ඩමසින්”
  • Slovenian: “Ad-Damazin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الدمازین”
  • Spanish: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Swahili: “Ed Damazin”
  • Swedish: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Tamil: “அட்-டமாஜின்”
  • Telugu: “యాడ్-డమజిన్”
  • Thai: “อัดดะมาซีน”
  • Turkish: “Damazin”
  • Ukrainian: “Ед-Дамазін”
  • Urdu: “الدمازین”
  • Vietnamese: “Ad-Damazin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ad-Damazin”
  • Zulu: “Ad-Damazin”

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