Kurdufan
Kordofan is a former province of central Sudan. In 1994 it was divided into three new federal states: North Kordofan, South Kordofan and West Kordofan.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Maureen Didde, CC BY 2.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include El-Obeid and Abyei.
El-Obeid
Photo: محسن الفكي, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Obeid, also romanized as Al-Ubayyid, is the capital of the state of North Kordofan, in Sudan. It is located within the Sheikan locality and under the former administrative structure within Sheikan District.
Abyei
Photo: Sudan Envoy, CC BY 2.0.
Abyei is a town that is administered by Sudan and claimed by South Sudan. 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″ northLongitude
30.3547° or 30° 21′ 17″ eastElevation
630 metres (2,067 feet)Open location code
7G5G39P3+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 7730435207OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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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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