Kurdufan

Kordofan is 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.

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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