Kurdufan

Kordofan is a region in Central Sudan and a former province of central Sudan. In 1994 it was divided into three new federal states: , and .
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, also romanized as Al-Ubayyid, is the capital of the state of , in . It is located within the Sheikan locality and under the former administrative structure within Sheikan District.

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is a town that is administered by and claimed by . It has been one of the flashpoints in the ongoing conflict between the two countries since the Sudanese Civil Wars, as it is disputed between the two countries.

Kurdufan

Latitude
13.0851° or 13° 5′ 6″ north
Longitude
30.3547° or 30° 21′ 17″ east
Elevation
630 metres (2,067 feet)
Open location code
7G5G39P3+2V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7730435207
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
371854
Wiki­data ID
Q867052
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kurdufan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كردفان”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kordofan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kurdufan”
  • Basque: “Kordofan”
  • Basque: “Kurdufan”
  • Belarusian: “Кардафан”
  • Bulgarian: “Курдуфан”
  • Catalan: “Kordofan”
  • Catalan: “Kordufan”
  • Catalan: “Kurdufan”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Kordofan”
  • Catalan: “Takali”
  • Catalan: “Taqali”
  • Chinese: “科爾多凡”
  • Czech: “Kordofán”
  • Danish: “Kordofan”
  • Dutch: “Kordofan”
  • Esperanto: “Kurdufano”
  • Finnish: “Kordofan”
  • Finnish: “Kurdufan”
  • French: “Kordofan”
  • German: “Kordofan”
  • German: “Kurdufan”
  • German: “Kurdufān”
  • Hebrew: “קורדופאן”
  • Indonesian: “Kurdufan”
  • Italian: “Kordofan”
  • Japanese: “コルドファーン”
  • Japanese: “コルドファン”
  • Japanese: “コルドファン地方”
  • Korean: “쿠르두판”
  • Lithuanian: “Kordofanas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kordofan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kordofan”
  • Persian: “کردفان”
  • Polish: “Kordofan”
  • Polish: “Kurdufan”
  • Portuguese: “Cordofão”
  • Russian: “Кордофан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kordofan”
  • Spanish: “Kordofan”
  • Spanish: “Kordofán”
  • Swedish: “Kordofan”
  • Swedish: “Kurdufan”
  • Tajik: “Курдуфон”
  • Turkish: “Kordofan”
  • Turkish: “Kurdufan”
  • Ukrainian: “Кордофан”
  • Urdu: “کردفان”
  • Venetian: “Kordofan”
  • Vietnamese: “Kordofan”

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