Sudan
Northern Sudan
Red Sea

Port Sudan

Port Sudan is a major port city on the Red Sea in eastern , and the capital of . Port Sudan is Sudan's main seaport and the source of 90% of the country's international trade.
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  • Type: City with 489,000 residents
  • Description: Port city on the Red Sea in Eastern Sudan
  • Also known as: “Bur Tsudan”, “Būr Tsūdān”, “Būrt Sūdān”, “New Sawakin”, “New Sawâkin”, “Port Sudan city”, “Shaikh Barghuth”, “Shaikh Barghūth”, “Shaykh Burghuth”, “Shaykh Burghūth”, “Sheikh Barghuth”, and “Sheikh Barghūth”

Port Sudan

Latitude
19.6192° or 19° 37′ 9″ north
Longitude
37.2117° or 37° 12′ 42″ east
Population
489,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
PZU
United Nations Location Code
SD PZU
Open location code
7GFVJ696+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288510602
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
377039
Wiki­data ID
Q208718
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Port Sudan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بور سودان”
  • Arabic: “بورت سودان”
  • Arabic: “بورتسودان |”
  • Arabic: “بورتسودان”
  • Arabic: “بورسودان”
  • Armenian: “Պորտ Սուդան”
  • Asturian: “Port Sudan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Port Sudan şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Port Sudan”
  • Basque: “Port Sudan”
  • Beja: “Bar’uut”
  • Belarusian: “Порт-Судан”
  • Bengali: “পোর্ট সুদান”
  • Bulgarian: “Порт Судан”
  • Catalan: “Port Sudan”
  • Catalan: “Port-Sudan”
  • Cebuano: “Port Sudan (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Port Sudan”
  • Chinese: “苏丹港”
  • Chinese: “蘇丹港”
  • Croatian: “Port Sudan”
  • Czech: “Bur Sudan”
  • Czech: “Búr Súdán”
  • Czech: “Port Sudan”
  • Czech: “Port Súdán”
  • Danish: “Port Sudan”
  • Dutch: “Boer Soedan”
  • Dutch: “Bur Sudan”
  • Dutch: “Būr Sūdān”
  • Dutch: “Port Soedan”
  • Dutch: “Port Sudan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورتسودان”
  • Esperanto: “Bursudano”
  • Esperanto: “Port Sudan”
  • Esperanto: “Sudanhavenurbo”
  • Estonian: “Port Sudan”
  • Finnish: “Port Sudan”
  • French: “Port Soudan”
  • French: “Port-Soudan”
  • German: “Bur Sudan”
  • German: “Port Sudan”
  • Greek: “Πορτ Σουδάν”
  • Greek: “Πορτ-Σουδάν”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટ સુદાન”
  • Hebrew: “פורט סודאן”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट सुडान”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट सूडान”
  • Hungarian: “Port Szudán”
  • Indonesian: “Port Sudan”
  • Interlingue: “Port Sudan”
  • Irish: “Port Sudan”
  • Italian: “Port Sudan”
  • Italian: “Porto Sudan”
  • Italian: “Porto Sudàn”
  • Japanese: “ポート・スーダン”
  • Japanese: “ポートスーダン”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಸುಡಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Порт-Судан”
  • Korean: “포트수단”
  • Latvian: “Portsudāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Port Sudanas”
  • Malay: “Port Sudan”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट सूडान”
  • Mingrelian: “პორტ-სუდანი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Sudan”
  • Norwegian: “Port Sudan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pòrt Sodan”
  • Persian: “بور سودان”
  • Persian: “پورت سودان”
  • Polish: “Bur Sudan”
  • Polish: “Port Sudan”
  • Portuguese: “Bur Sudan”
  • Portuguese: “Port Sudan”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Sudão”
  • Romanian: “Port Sudan”
  • Russian: “Порт Судан”
  • Russian: “Порт-Судан”
  • Scots: “Port Sudan”
  • Serbian: “Port Sudan”
  • Serbian: “Бур Судан”
  • Serbian: “Порт Судан”
  • Serbian: “بورتسودان”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Port Sudan”
  • Sinhala: “පොර්ට් සුඩාන්”
  • Slovenian: “Bur Sudan”
  • Slovenian: “Port Sudan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بور سودان”
  • Spanish: “Port Sudan”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Sudan”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Sudán”
  • Swahili: “Port Sudan”
  • Swedish: “Bur Sudan”
  • Swedish: “Būr Sūdān”
  • Swedish: “Port Sudan”
  • Swedish: “Port-Soudan”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட் சூடான்”
  • Telugu: “పోర్ట్ సుడాన్”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตซูดาน”
  • Turkish: “Port Sudan kenti”
  • Turkish: “Port Sudan”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-Судан”
  • Urdu: “پورٹ سوڈان”
  • Uzbek: “Port-sudan”
  • Uzbek: “Port-Sudan”
  • Venetian: “Porto Sudan”
  • Vietnamese: “Port Sudan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Port Sudan”
  • Zulu: “Port Sudan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Port Sudan”. Photo: Bertramz, CC BY 3.0.