Darfur
Darfur is a region of western Sudan covering 493,180 square kilometers. It consists largely of a semi-desert plateau, with the volcanic Marrah Mountains in its center, and is divided into five federal states: Central, East, North, South, and West Darfur.
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Darfur
- Region with about 7,520,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 970 metres (3,180 feet)
- Description: region of Sudan
- Category: region of Sudan
- Location
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Latitude
13° north
Longitude
25° east
Open location code
7G572222+22
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Darfur” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Darfoer”
- Arabic: “إقليم دارفور”
- Arabic: “دار فور”
- Arabic: “ولايةدارفور الفاشر”
- Armenian: “Դարֆուր”
- Asturian: “Darfur”
- Azerbaijani: “Darfur regionu”
- Azerbaijani: “Darfur”
- Basque: “Darfur”
- Belarusian: “Дарфур”
- Belarusian: “Рэгіён Дарфур”
- Bengali: “দারফুর”
- Bosnian: “Darfur”
- Breton: “Darfour”
- Bulgarian: “Дарфур”
- Catalan: “Dar Fur”
- Catalan: “Darfour”
- Catalan: “Estat de Darfur”
- Catalan: “Estat del Darfur”
- Catalan: “Història del Darfur”
- Catalan: “Província de Darfur del Nord”
- Catalan: “Província de Darfur del Sud”
- Catalan: “Província de Darfur Meridional”
- Catalan: “Província de Darfur Septentrional”
- Catalan: “Província de Darfur”
- Catalan: “Província del Darfur”
- Catalan: “Regio de Darfur”
- Catalan: “Regió del Darfur”
- Central Bikol: “Darfur”
- Central Kurdish: “دارفوور”
- Chinese: “达佛”
- Chinese: “达富尔”
- Chinese: “达尔富尔”
- Chinese: “達佛”
- Chinese: “達爾富爾”
- Chinese: “達爾富爾地區”
- Chinese: “達爾福”
- Chinese: “達爾福爾”
- Croatian: “Darfur”
- Czech: “Dárfúr”
- Danish: “Darfur”
- Dimli (individual language): “Darfur”
- Dutch: “Darfoer”
- Dutch: “Darfour”
- Dutch: “Darfur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دارفور”
- Esperanto: “Darfur”
- Esperanto: “Darfuro”
- Estonian: “Dārfūr”
- Finnish: “Darfur”
- French: “Dâr Fûr”
- French: “Darfour”
- Galician: “Darfur”
- Galician: “Rexión de Darfur”
- Georgian: “დარფურის რეგიონი”
- German: “Dar For”
- German: “Darfour”
- German: “Dārfūr”
- Greek: “Νταρφούρ”
- Hebrew: “דארפור”
- Hebrew: “דרפור”
- Hungarian: “Dárfúr”
- Icelandic: “Darfúr”
- Indonesian: “Darfur”
- Irish: “Darfur”
- Italian: “Darfour”
- Italian: “Darfur”
- Japanese: “ダール・フール”
- Japanese: “ダルフール・スルターン国”
- Japanese: “ダルフール”
- Japanese: “ダルフール地方”
- Japanese: “ダルフル”
- Korean: “다르푸르”
- Kurdish: “Darfûr”
- Latvian: “Dārfūra”
- Lithuanian: “Darfūras”
- Macedonian: “Дарфур”
- Malagasy: “Darfora”
- Malay: “Darfur”
- Malayalam: “ഡാർഫർ”
- Mazanderani: “دارفور”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Darfur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Darfur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Darfur”
- Norwegian: “Darfur”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Darfor”
- Panjabi: “ਦਾਰਫ਼ੂਰ”
- Persian: “دارفور”
- Persian: “ناحیه دارفور”
- Polish: “Dar Fur”
- Polish: “Wyżyna Dar Fur”
- Portuguese: “Darfur”
- Romanian: “Darfur”
- Russian: “Дарфур”
- Serbian: “Дарфур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Darfur”
- Sicilian: “Darfur”
- Slovenian: “Darfur”
- Spanish: “Darfur”
- Swahili: “Darfur”
- Swedish: “Dar-Fur”
- Swedish: “KS25”
- Tagalog: “Darfur”
- Tamil: “தார்ஃபூர்”
- Tamil: “தார்பூர்”
- Thai: “ดาร์ฟูร์”
- Turkish: “Darfur”
- Turkish: “Dorfur”
- Ukrainian: “Дарфур”
- Urdu: “دارفور”
- Venetian: “Darfur”
- Vietnamese: “Darfur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Darfur”
- Western Panjabi: “دارفر”
- Wu Chinese: “达尔富尔”
- Yiddish: “דארפאר”
- Yiddish: “דארפור”
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