Blue Nile

Blue Nile State is one of the 18 states of the Republic of the Sudan. Established by Presidential Decree No. 3 in 1992, it is named after the Blue Nile River.
Wikipedia
  • Type: State with 832,000 residents
  • Description: state of Sudan
  • Also known as: “Al Wilāyah al Wusţá”, “An Nil al Azrag”, “An Nil al Azraq”, “An Nīl al Azraq”, “An-Nil al-Azrak”, “Blue Nile State”, “Den Blå Nilen”, “Província del Nil Blau”, “Regio del Nil Blau”, “Regió del Nil Blau”, “SD-24”, “SD-NB”, “Wilāyat an Nīl al Azraq”, “Сини Нил(провинция)”, “النيل الأزرق Blue Nile State”, “الوولاية الوسطى”, “نیل ازرق (اسٹیٹ)”, “ولاية سنار و ولاية النيل الأزرق”, “블루 나일 주”, “青尼罗省”, and “青尼羅省”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baw.

Village
is a district of Blue Nile state, .

Blue Nile

Latitude
11.2565° or 11° 15′ 23″ north
Longitude
34.0497° or 34° 2′ 59″ east
Population
832,000
Elevation
642 metres (2,106 feet)
Open location code
7G3P724X+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 321446195
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
408654
Wiki­data ID
Q309489
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Blue Nile” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሰማያዊ ዓባይ”
  • Arabic: “اقليم النيل الأزرق”
  • Arabic: “النيل الأزرق”
  • Arabic: “النيل الازرق”
  • Arabic: “ولاية النيل الأزرق”
  • Arabic: “ولاية النيل الازرق”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mavi Nil”
  • Belarusian: “Блакітны Ніл”
  • Bengali: “আন-নীল আল-আজরাক”
  • Breton: “Blue Nile”
  • Breton: “Nil Glas”
  • Bulgarian: “Сини Нил”
  • Catalan: “Estat del Nil Blau”
  • Catalan: “Nil Blau”
  • Cebuano: “Blue Nile (estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Blue Nile”
  • Chinese: “青尼罗州”
  • Chinese: “青尼羅州”
  • Croatian: “Plavi Nil”
  • Czech: “Modrý Nil”
  • Danish: “Blå Nil”
  • Dutch: “An-Nil-al-Azraq”
  • Dutch: “Blauwe Nijl”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اقليم النيل الازرق”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولاية النيل الازرق”
  • Esperanto: “Blua Nilo”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Blua Nilo”
  • Finnish: “An-Nil al-Azraq”
  • Finnish: “Blue Nile”
  • French: “État du Nil Bleu”
  • French: “Nil Bleu”
  • Georgian: “ცისფერი ნილოსის შტატი”
  • German: “An-Nil al-azraq”
  • German: “Blauer Nil”
  • Greek: “Μπλε Νείλος”
  • Gujarati: “બ્લુ નાઇલ”
  • Hausa: “Blue Nile (jihar)”
  • Hausa: “Blue Nile”
  • Hebrew: “הנילוס הכחול”
  • Hindi: “ब्लू नाइल (राज्य)”
  • Hindi: “ब्लू नाइल”
  • Hungarian: “Kék Nílus”
  • Indonesian: “Nil Biru”
  • Italian: “Nilo Azzurro”
  • Japanese: “青ナイル州”
  • Javanese: “Nil Biru”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಲೂ ನೈಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Көк Нил”
  • Kirghiz: “Көк Нил”
  • Korean: “청나일주”
  • Latvian: “Zilās Nīlas vilājs”
  • Lithuanian: “Žydrojo Nilo vilajetas”
  • Malay: “Blue Nile”
  • Malay: “Negeri Nil Biru”
  • Malay: “Nil Biru”
  • Marathi: “ब्लू नाईल”
  • Northern Frisian: “Blä Niil (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Blä Niil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “An-Nil al-Azraq”
  • Norwegian: “An-Nil al-Azraq”
  • Oromo: “Nil Gara”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੀਲਾ ਨੀਲ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੀਲਾ ਨੀਲ”
  • Persian: “نیل آبی”
  • Polish: “Nil Błękitny”
  • Portuguese: “Nilo Azul”
  • Pushto: “آبی نیل”
  • Romanian: “Statul Nilul Albastru”
  • Russian: “Голубой Нил”
  • Serbian: “Plavi Nil”
  • Serbian: “Плави Нил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Plavi Nil (vilajet)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Plavi Nil”
  • Sinhala: “නිල් නයිල් ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “නිල් නයිල්”
  • Slovenian: “Modri Nil”
  • Somali: “Nile Buluug”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماوی نیل ایالتی”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Nilo Azul”
  • Spanish: “Nilo Azul”
  • Swahili: “Bluu Nile, Sudan”
  • Swahili: “Bluu Nile”
  • Swedish: “An-Nil al-Azraq”
  • Tajik: “Нили Кабуд”
  • Tamil: “ப்ளூ நில”
  • Tatar: “Зәңгәр Нил”
  • Telugu: “బ్లూ నైల్”
  • Thai: “รัฐอันนีลุลอัซร็อก”
  • Turkish: “Mavi Nil Eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Mavi Nil”
  • Ukrainian: “Блакитний Ніл”
  • Urdu: “نیل ازرق (ریاست)”
  • Urdu: “نیل ازرق”
  • Uzbek: “Ko’k Nil”
  • Vietnamese: “Nin Xanh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Muya nga Nilo”
  • Western Armenian: “Կապոյտ նեղոս”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیلا نیل صوبہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیلا نیل”
  • Wu Chinese: “青尼罗州”
  • Zulu: “Blue Nile (isifundazwe)”
  • Zulu: “Blue Nile”

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