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White Nile

White Nile State is one of the 18 wilayat or states of . It has an area of 39,701 km2 and an estimated population of approximately 2,493,880 people.
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  • Type: State with 1,400,000 residents
  • Description: state of Sudan
  • Also known as: “An Nīl al Abyaḑ”, “White Nile State”, and “Wilāyat an Nīl al Abyaḑ”

White Nile

Latitude
13.5102° or 13° 30′ 37″ north
Longitude
32.3935° or 32° 23′ 37″ east
Population
1,400,000
Elevation
384 metres (1,260 feet)
Open location code
7G5JG96V+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 321446178
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
408653
Wiki­data ID
Q311371
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“White Nile” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “النيل الأبيض”
  • Arabic: “النيل الأبيض‎”
  • Arabic: “النيل الابيض”
  • Arabic: “ولاية النيل الأبيض”
  • Arabic: “ولاية النيل الابيض”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ağ Nil”
  • Belarusian: “Белы Ніл”
  • Bengali: “শ্বেত নীল”
  • Bengali: “হোয়াইট নিল”
  • Bulgarian: “Бели Нил”
  • Catalan: “Estat del Nil Blanc”
  • Cebuano: “White Nile”
  • Chinese: “白尼罗州”
  • Chinese: “白尼罗省”
  • Chinese: “白尼羅州”
  • Chinese: “白尼羅省”
  • Croatian: “Bijeli Nil”
  • Danish: “Hvide Nil”
  • Dutch: “An-Nil-al-Abyad”
  • Dutch: “Witte Nijl”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولاية النيل الابيض”
  • Esperanto: “An Nil al Abjad”
  • Esperanto: “Blanka Nilo”
  • Esperanto: “SD-08”
  • Esperanto: “SD-NW”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Blanka Nilo”
  • Finnish: “An-Nil al-Abyad”
  • Finnish: “White Nile”
  • French: “An Nil al Abyad”
  • French: “État du Nil Blanc”
  • French: “Nil Blanc”
  • Georgian: “თეთრი ნილოსის შტატი”
  • German: “An Nil al Abyad”
  • German: “An-Nil al-abyad”
  • German: “SD-08”
  • German: “SD-NW”
  • German: “Weißer Nil”
  • Greek: “Λευκός Νείλος”
  • Gujarati: “વ્હાઇટ નીલ”
  • Hindi: “सफ़ेद नील”
  • Indonesian: “Nil Putih”
  • Italian: “An-Nil al-Abyad”
  • Italian: “Nilo Bianco”
  • Japanese: “白ナイル州”
  • Kannada: “ವೈಟ್ ನೈಲ್”
  • Korean: “백나일주”
  • Latin: “Nilus Albus”
  • Latvian: “Baltās Nīlas vilājs”
  • Lithuanian: “Baltojo Nilo vilajetas”
  • Malay: “Negeri Nil Putih”
  • Malay: “Nil Putih”
  • Malay: “White Nile”
  • Marathi: “व्हाईट नील”
  • Northern Frisian: “Witj Niil (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Witj Niil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvite nil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvite Nilen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kvite Nilen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nil Blanc”
  • Persian: “نیل سفید”
  • Polish: “An-Nil al-Abjad”
  • Polish: “Nil Biały”
  • Portuguese: “An-nil al-abyad”
  • Portuguese: “Nilo Branco”
  • Portuguese: “White Nile”
  • Romanian: “Statul Nilul Alb”
  • Russian: “Белый Нил”
  • Serbian: “Бели Нил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bijeli Nil (vilajet)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bijeli Nil”
  • Sinhala: “සුදු නයිල් ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “සුදු නයිල්”
  • Slovenian: “Beli Nil”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آغ نیل ایالتی”
  • Spanish: “An Nil al Abyad”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Nilo Blanco”
  • Spanish: “Nilo Blanco”
  • Swahili: “Nile nyeupe, Sudan”
  • Swahili: “Nile nyeupe”
  • Swedish: “An-Nil al-Abyad”
  • Tamil: “வைட் நிலே”
  • Tatar: “Ак Нил”
  • Telugu: “వైట్ నైల్”
  • Thai: “รัฐอันนีลุลอับยัฎ”
  • Turkish: “Beyaz Nil Eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Beyaz Nil”
  • Ukrainian: “Білий Ніл”
  • Urdu: “نیل ابیض (اسٹیٹ)”
  • Urdu: “نیل ابیض (ریاست)”
  • Urdu: “نیل ابیض”
  • Vietnamese: “Nin Trắng”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Busag nga Nilo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “White Nile”
  • Western Armenian: “Սպիտակ Նեղոս”
  • Western Panjabi: “چٹا نیل”
  • Zulu: “White Nile (isifundazwe)”
  • Zulu: “White Nile”

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