Dongola
Dongola, also known as Urdu or New Dongola, is the capital of Northern State in Sudan, on the banks of the Nile. It should not be confused with Old Dongola, a now deserted medieval city located 80 km upstream on the opposite bank.
- Type: City with 56,200 residents
- Description: capital of the state of Northern in Sudan
- Also known as: “Al ‘Urdi”, “Donkola”, and “New Dongola”
Dongola
- Categories: village in Sudan and locality
- Location: Northern State, Northern Sudan, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.1729° or 19° 10′ 22″ north
Longitude
30.4732° or 30° 28′ 23″ east
Population
56,200
Elevation
226 metres (741 feet)
IATA airport code
DOG
United Nations Location Code
SD DOG
Open location code
7GFG5FFF+47
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Dongola” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ዶንጎላ”
- Arabic: “دنقلا”
- Asturian: “Dongola”
- Azerbaijani: “Dongola”
- Basque: “Dongola”
- Belarusian: “Дангола”
- Bengali: “ডাঙ্গলা”
- Bengali: “ডোঙ্গোলা”
- Breton: “Dongola”
- Catalan: “Ciutat de Dongola”
- Catalan: “Dongola”
- Catalan: “Dongula”
- Catalan: “Dunkula”
- Catalan: “Dunqula”
- Catalan: “Regne de Dongola”
- Cebuano: “Dongola”
- Chinese: “栋古拉”
- Chinese: “棟古拉”
- Czech: “Dongola”
- Czech: “Dunqula”
- Czech: “Dunqulah”
- Danish: “Dongola”
- Dutch: “Dongola”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دنقله”
- Finnish: “Dongola”
- Finnish: “Dunqula”
- French: “Dongola”
- French: “Dunqula”
- German: “Donggola”
- German: “Dongla”
- German: “Dongola”
- German: “Donqola”
- German: “Dungola”
- German: “Dungula”
- German: “Dunqula”
- German: “Dunqulā”
- German: “Neu Donggola”
- German: “Neu Dongla”
- German: “Neu Dongola”
- German: “Neu Donqola”
- German: “Neu Dungola”
- German: “Neu Dungula”
- German: “Neu Dunqula”
- German: “New Dongola”
- Greek: “Ντόνγκολα”
- Gujarati: “ડોંગોલા”
- Hausa: “Dongola”
- Hebrew: “קארמה”
- Hindi: “डोंगोला”
- Hindi: “दोँगोला”
- Hungarian: “Dongola”
- Indonesian: “Dongola”
- Irish: “Dongola”
- Italian: “Dongola”
- Japanese: “ドンゴラ”
- Javanese: “Dongola”
- Kannada: “ಡಾಂಗೋಲ”
- Kannada: “ಡೊಂಗೊಲ”
- Kazakh: “Донгола”
- Kirghiz: “Донгола”
- Korean: “동골라”
- Latvian: “Dongola”
- Lithuanian: “Dongola”
- Malay: “Dongola”
- Marathi: “डोंगोला”
- Mingrelian: “დონგოლა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dongola”
- Norwegian: “Dongola”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dongola”
- Oromo: “Dongola”
- Panjabi: “ਡੋਂਗੋਲਾ”
- Persian: “دنقلا”
- Polish: “Dongola”
- Polish: “Dunkula”
- Polish: “Tungul”
- Portuguese: “Dongola”
- Pushto: “ډونګولا”
- Romanian: “Dongola”
- Russian: “Донгола”
- Serbian: “Донгола”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dongola”
- Sinhala: “ඩොන්ගොලා”
- Slovenian: “Dongola”
- Somali: “Dongola”
- South Azerbaijani: “دنقلا”
- Spanish: “Dongola”
- Swahili: “Dongola”
- Swedish: “Dongola”
- Swedish: “Dunqula”
- Swedish: “Dunqulah”
- Tajik: “Донгола”
- Tamil: “டோங்கோலா”
- Tatar: “Донгола”
- Telugu: “దొంగోలా”
- Thai: “ดุนกุลา”
- Turkish: “Dongola”
- Ukrainian: “Донгола”
- Urdu: “دنقلا”
- Urdu: “دونجولا”
- Urdu: “ڈونگولا”
- Uzbek: “Dongola”
- Vietnamese: “Dongola”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dongola”
- Zulu: “Dongola, Sudan”
- Zulu: “Dongola”
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