Sudan
Central Sudan
Khartoum State

Khartoum

Khartoum is the capital of and is located where the Blue and White Niles merge to form the Nile. The huge, spread-out city is actually made out of three distinct cities which are divided by the Nile and its two arms.
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  • Type: City with 2,680,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Sudan
  • Also known as: “Al Kharţūm”, “Al Khurţūm”, “Khartoun”, and “Khartum”
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Khartoum

Latitude
15.633° or 15° 37′ 59″ north
Longitude
32.533° or 32° 31′ 59″ east
Population
2,680,000
Elevation
381 metres (1,250 feet)
IATA airport code
KRT
United Nations Location Code
SD KRT
Open location code
7G7JJGMM+56
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565117
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
379252
Wiki­data ID
Q1963
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Khartoum” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Khartoum”
  • Afrikaans: “Khartoem”
  • Albanian: “Hartum”
  • Albanian: “Kartum”
  • Amharic: “ካርቱም”
  • Arabic: “ااالخرطوم”
  • Arabic: “الخرطوم”
  • Arabic: “خرطوم”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الخرطوم”
  • Aragonese: “Khartum”
  • Armenian: “Խարթում”
  • Asturian: “Ḥartum”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xartum”
  • Balinese: “Khartoum”
  • Bashkir: “Хартум”
  • Basque: “Khartum”
  • Belarusian: “Хартум”
  • Bengali: “খার্তুম”
  • Bosnian: “Kartum”
  • Breton: “C’hartoum”
  • Bulgarian: “Хартум”
  • Burmese: “ခါတွမ်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Khartum”
  • Cebuano: “Khartoum”
  • Central Bikol: “Khartoum”
  • Central Kanuri: “Khartoum”
  • Central Kurdish: “خەرتووم”
  • Chechen: “Хартум”
  • Chinese: “Khartoum”
  • Chinese: “喀土木”
  • Chinese: “喀土穆”
  • Chuvash: “Хартум”
  • Cornish: “Khartoum”
  • Corsican: “Khartoum”
  • Croatian: “Kartum”
  • Croatian: “Khartoum”
  • Czech: “Chartúm”
  • Danish: “Khartoum”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Xartum”
  • Dinka: “Kaartuɔ̈m”
  • Dutch: “Khartoem”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الخرطوم”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥartumo”
  • Esperanto: “Kartumo”
  • Estonian: “Hartum”
  • Faroese: “Khartoum”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Khartoum”
  • Finnish: “Khartum”
  • French: “Khartoum”
  • Fulah: “Khartoum”
  • Ga: “Khartoum”
  • Galician: “Khartún”
  • Georgian: “ხარტუმი”
  • German: “Chartum”
  • German: “Khartum”
  • Greek: “Χαρτούμ”
  • Gujarati: “ખાર્તૂમ”
  • Haitian: “Kartoum”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Khartoum”
  • Hausa: “Khartoum”
  • Hausa: “Khatum”
  • Hebrew: “ח’רטום”
  • Hebrew: “חרטום”
  • Hindi: “खार्तूम”
  • Hungarian: “Hartúm”
  • Hungarian: “Kartúm”
  • Icelandic: “Kartúm”
  • Ido: “Khartoum”
  • Inari Sami: “Khartum”
  • Indonesian: “Khartoum”
  • Interlingua: “Khartum”
  • Interlingue: “Cartum”
  • Irish: “Cartúm”
  • Italian: “Khartum”
  • Japanese: “カルトゥーム”
  • Japanese: “ハルツーム”
  • Japanese: “ハルトゥーム”
  • Javanese: “Khartoum”
  • Kabiyè: “Kaartum”
  • Kabyle: “Xerṭum”
  • Kannada: “ಖಾರ್ಟೂಂ”
  • Kannada: “‍ಖಾರ್ಟ್ಯೂಮ್”
  • Kannada: “ಖಾರ್ತೂಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Хартум”
  • Khmer: “ខាទូម”
  • Kirghiz: “Хартум”
  • Komering: “Khartoum”
  • Kongo: “Khartoum”
  • Korean: “카르툼”
  • Korean: “하르툼”
  • Kotava: “Khartoum”
  • Kurdish: “Xartûm”
  • Kurdish: “Xertûm”
  • Latin: “Khartum”
  • Latin: “Khartumensis Urbs”
  • Latvian: “Hartūma”
  • Ligurian: “Khartum”
  • Limburgan: “Khartoem”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Khartoum”
  • Lithuanian: “Chartumas”
  • Livvi: “Hartum”
  • Lombard: “Khartum”
  • Low German: “Khartum”
  • Luxembourgish: “Khartum”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Khartum”
  • Macedonian: “Картум”
  • Malagasy: “Khartoum”
  • Malay: “Khartoum”
  • Malayalam: “ഖാർത്തൂം”
  • Maltese: “Khartoum”
  • Marathi: “खार्टूम”
  • Mazanderani: “خرطوم”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Khartoum”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Khartoum”
  • Minangkabau: “Khartoum”
  • Mingrelian: “ხარტუმი”
  • Moksha: “Хартум”
  • Mongolian: “Хартум”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لخرطوم”
  • Navajo: “Ahidiilíinii”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chartuum (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chartuum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Khartoum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khartoum”
  • Norwegian: “Khartoum”
  • Novial: “Kartum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Khartom”
  • Oromo: “Kaartum”
  • Ossetian: “Хартум”
  • Panjabi: “ਖ਼ਰਤੂਮ”
  • Papiamento: “Kartum”
  • Persian: “خارطوم”
  • Persian: “خرطوم”
  • Piemontese: “Khartoum”
  • Polish: “Chartum”
  • Portuguese: “Cartum”
  • Pushto: “خرطوم”
  • Quechua: “Khartum”
  • Romanian: “Khartoum”
  • Russian: “Хартум”
  • Sakizaya: “Ke-s-mu”
  • Samogitian: “Chartums”
  • Sardinian: “Khartum”
  • Scots: “Khartoum”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Khartoum”
  • Serbian: “Картум”
  • Serbian: “الخرطوم”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kartum”
  • Shona: “Khartoum”
  • Silesian: “Chartům”
  • Sindhi: “خرطوم”
  • Sinhala: “කාටුම්”
  • Sinhala: “කාර්ටුම්”
  • Slovak: “Chartúm”
  • Slovenian: “Kartum”
  • Somali: “Khartuum”
  • South Azerbaijani: “خرطوم”
  • Spanish: “Jartum”
  • Spanish: “Kartum”
  • Swahili: “Khartoum”
  • Swedish: “Khartoum”
  • Tagalog: “Khartoum”
  • Tajik: “Хартум”
  • Talysh: “Xartum”
  • Tamil: “கர்த்தூம்”
  • Tamil: “கார்த்தௌம்”
  • Tatar: “Хартум”
  • Telugu: “ఖర్తూం”
  • Telugu: “ఖార్టోమ్”
  • Thai: “คาร์ทูม”
  • Tibetan: “ཁར་ཏུམ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཁར་ཏུམ”
  • Turkish: “Hartum”
  • Turkmen: “Hartum”
  • Udmurt: “Хартум”
  • Uighur: “خارتۇم”
  • Ukrainian: “Хартум”
  • Urdu: “خرطوم”
  • Uzbek: “Xartum”
  • Venetian: “Khartoum”
  • Veps: “Hartum”
  • Vietnamese: “Khartoum”
  • Volapük: “Qartum”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Khartoum”
  • Welsh: “Khartoum”
  • Western Armenian: “Խարթում”
  • Western Frisian: “Kartûm”
  • Western Mari: “Хартум”
  • Western Panjabi: “خرطوم”
  • Wolof: “Xartum”
  • Wu Chinese: “Al-Khartoum”
  • Wu Chinese: “喀土穆”
  • Yoruba: “Khartoum”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀土穆”
  • Zulu: “i-Khartoum”
  • Zulu: “Khartoum”
  • “Cartun”
  • “Chartums”

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