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Sudan is a country in Northeast Africa and is 's third largest country in terms of area. Sudan was the continent's largest country up until the secession of in 2011.
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is the capital of Sudan 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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is a region of western Sudan. Dār is an Arabic word meaning "home " – the region was named Dardaju while ruled by the Daju, who migrated from c. 350 AD, and it was renamed Dartunjur when the Tunjur ruled the area.

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is an ancient city along the eastern bank of the Nile River in , approximately 200 km northeast of . The site is home to more than 200 Nubian pyramids in three separate groups.

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consists of the three states of Sudan known as Northern, Red Sea and River Nile.

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is the political, geographic, cultural, and economic center of Sudan, centered around the capital, . It consists of the states of Al Jazirah, Khartoum and White Nile.

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Kordofan is a former province of central Sudan. In 1994 it was divided into three new federal states: , and .

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is the region of Sudan lying to the east of , along the Blue Nile. It consists of the states of Al Qadarif, Blue Nile, Kassala and Sennar.

Sudan

Latitude of center
13.174° or 13° 10′ 26″ north
Longitude of center
30.208° or 30° 12′ 29″ east
Population
39,400,000
Area
1,861,484 km² (718,723 miles²)
Elevation
424 metres (1,391 feet)
Capital
Currency
Pound (SDG)
Phone code
.sd
Internet domain
249
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424297973
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
366755
Wiki­data ID
Q1049
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Sudan” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Судан”
  • Abkhazian: “Судан”
  • Achinese: “Sudan”
  • Adyghe: “Судан”
  • Afrikaans: “Soedan”
  • Akan: “Sudan”
  • Albanian: “Sudan”
  • Albanian: “Sudani”
  • Algerian Arabic: “سودان”
  • Amharic: “ሱዳን”
  • Amis: “Sudan”
  • Angika: “सूडान”
  • Arabic: “السودان”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية السودان”
  • Aragonese: “Sudán”
  • Armenian: “Սուդան”
  • Arpitan: “Sodan”
  • Assamese: “চুডান”
  • Assamese: “চুদান”
  • Asturian: “Sudán”
  • Atayal: “Sudan”
  • Aymara: “Sudan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sudan”
  • Balinese: “Sudan”
  • Bambara: “Sudan”
  • Bambara: “Sudaŋ”
  • Banjar: “Sudan”
  • Bashkir: “Судан”
  • Basque: “Sudan”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Sudan”
  • Bavarian: “Sudan”
  • Belarusian: “Судан”
  • Bengali: “সুদান”
  • Betawi: “Sudan”
  • Bhojpuri: “अल-सूडान”
  • Bhojpuri: “उत्तर सूडान”
  • Bhojpuri: “उत्तरी सूडान”
  • Bhojpuri: “दि सूडान”
  • Bhojpuri: “सूडान”
  • Bishnupriya: “সুদান”
  • Bislama: “Sudan”
  • Bosnian: “Sudan”
  • Breton: “Soudan”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Судан”
  • Bulgarian: “Судан”
  • Burmese: “ဆူဒန်”
  • Burmese: “ဆူဒန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “El Sudan”
  • Catalan: “República del Sudan”
  • Catalan: “Sudan”
  • Cebuano: “Sudan”
  • Central Bikol: “Sudan”
  • Central Kanuri: “Sudan dǝ”
  • Central Kanuri: “Sudan”
  • Central Kurdish: “سوودان”
  • Chavacano: “Sudán”
  • Chechen: “Судан”
  • Chinese: “Sudan”
  • Chinese: “Sūdān”
  • Chinese: “苏丹”
  • Chinese: “苏丹共和国”
  • Chinese: “蘇丹”
  • Chinese: “蘇丹共和國”
  • Chuvash: “Судан”
  • Cornish: “Soudan”
  • Cornish: “Sudan”
  • Corsican: “Sudan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sudan”
  • Croatian: “Sudan”
  • Czech: “Súdán”
  • Czech: “Súdánská republika”
  • Dagbani: “Sudan”
  • Danish: “Sudan”
  • Dhivehi: “ސޫދާން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sudan”
  • Dinka: “Thudän”
  • Dotyali: “सुडान”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Soedan”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Sudan”
  • Dutch: “SD”
  • Dutch: “SDN”
  • Dutch: “Soedan”
  • Dutch: “Sudan”
  • Dzongkha: “སུ་ཌཱན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Судан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “السودان”
  • Erzya: “Судан”
  • Esperanto: “Nord-Sudano”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Sudano”
  • Esperanto: “SD”
  • Esperanto: “Sudano”
  • Estonian: “Sudaan”
  • Estonian: “Sudaani Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Sudã”
  • Ewe: “Sudan nutome”
  • Ewe: “Sudan”
  • Extremaduran: “Sudán”
  • Farefare: “Sudan”
  • Faroese: “Sudan”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sudan”
  • Finnish: “Sudan”
  • Finnish: “Sudanin tasavalta”
  • French: “la République du Soudan”
  • French: “SD”
  • French: “Soudan”
  • Fulah: “Sudaan”
  • Fulah: “Sudan”
  • Gagauz: “Sudan”
  • Galician: “O Sudán”
  • Galician: “República do Sudán”
  • Galician: “Sudán”
  • Ganda: “Sudaani”
  • Georgian: “სუდანი”
  • German: “Republik Sudan”
  • German: “Sudan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “al-Sudan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “as-Sudan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “as-Sūdān”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Sudan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of the Sudan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sudan”
  • Gilaki: “سۊدان”
  • Goan Konkani: “सुडान”
  • Goan Konkani: “सुदान”
  • Greek: “Σουδάν”
  • Guarani: “Sudã”
  • Guarani: “Sudano”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Soudan”
  • Gujarati: “સુદાન”
  • Haitian: “Soudan”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sudan”
  • Hausa: “Sudan”
  • Hebrew: “סודאן”
  • Hebrew: “סודן”
  • Hindi: “उत्तर सूडान”
  • Hindi: “सूडान”
  • Hungarian: “Szudán”
  • Hungarian: “Szudáni Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Sudan”
  • Icelandic: “Súdan”
  • Ido: “Sudan”
  • Igbo: “Sudan”
  • Iloko: “Sudan”
  • Inari Sami: “Sudan täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Sudan”
  • Indonesian: “Sudan”
  • Ingush: “Судан”
  • Interlingua: “Sudan”
  • Interlingue: “Sudan”
  • Irish: “an tSúdáin”
  • Irish: “An tSúdáin”
  • Irish: “Poblacht na Súdáine”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Sudan”
  • Italian: “Sudan”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Sudan”
  • Japanese: “スーダン”
  • Japanese: “スーダン共和国”
  • Javanese: “Sudan”
  • Kabardian: “Судан”
  • Kabiyè: “Sudaanɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Sudan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Avannarleqsudan”
  • Kalmyk: “Суданмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಸುಡಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸೂಡಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sudan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Судан”
  • Kashmiri: “سوڈان”
  • Kashmiri: “سوٗڈان”
  • Kashubian: “Sùdan”
  • Kazakh: “Судан Республикасы”
  • Kazakh: “Судан”
  • Kazakh: “Сұдан”
  • Khmer: “ស៊ូដង់”
  • Kikuyu: “Sũdana”
  • Kikuyu: “Sudani”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Sudani”
  • Kirghiz: “Судан”
  • Komering: “Sudan”
  • Kongo: “Sudan”
  • Korean: “수단”
  • Kotava: “Sudana”
  • Kurdish: “Sudan”
  • Kurdish: “Sûdan”
  • Kurdish: “سوودان”
  • Ladin: “Sudan”
  • Ladino: “Sudan”
  • Lao: “ຊູດານ”
  • Latin: “Sudania”
  • Latvian: “Sudāna”
  • Latvian: “Sudānas Republika”
  • Latvian: “Ziemeļsudāna”
  • Lezghian: “Судан”
  • Ligurian: “Sudan”
  • Limburgan: “Soedan”
  • Lingala: “Sudá”
  • Lingala: “Sudani”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sudan”
  • Literary Chinese: “蘇丹”
  • Lithuanian: “Sudanas”
  • Livvi: “Sudan”
  • Lojban: “sudan”
  • Lombard: “Sudan”
  • Low German: “Soedan”
  • Low German: “Sudan”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sudan”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Suda”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sudan”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Sudan”
  • Macedonian: “Судан”
  • Madurese: “Sudan”
  • Magahi: “सूडान”
  • Maithili: “उत्तर सूडान”
  • Maithili: “सूडान”
  • Malagasy: “Sodan”
  • Malagasy: “Sodana”
  • Malagasy: “Sodàna”
  • Malay: “Sudan”
  • Malayalam: “സുഡാൻ”
  • Maltese: “is-Sudan”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tas-Sudan”
  • Maltese: “Sudan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯨꯗꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght y Toodaan”
  • Manx: “SD”
  • Manx: “Soodaan”
  • Manx: “SUD”
  • Manx: “Sudan”
  • Manx: “y Toodaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Toodaan”
  • Maori: “Hūtāne”
  • Marathi: “सुदान”
  • Mazanderani: “سودان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sudan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sudan”
  • Minangkabau: “Sudan”
  • Mingrelian: “სუდანი”
  • Mirandese: “Sudan”
  • Moksha: “Судан”
  • Mongolian: “Судан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “السودان”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سودان”
  • Nauru: “Tudan”
  • Navajo: “Ásáí Dineʼé Daalzhiní Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “सुडान”
  • Newari: “सुदान”
  • North Ndebele: “Sudani”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sudaan”
  • Northern Sami: “Davvisudan”
  • Northern Sami: “Sudan dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Sudan”
  • Northern Sami: “Sudana dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Sudan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sudan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sudan”
  • Norwegian: “Sudan”
  • Novial: “Sudan”
  • Nyanja: “Sudan”
  • Obolo: “Sudan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sodan”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܘܕܐܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sudan”
  • Oriya: “ସୁଦାନ”
  • Oromo: “Sudaan”
  • Ossetian: “Судан”
  • Pali: “सूडान”
  • Pampanga: “Sudan”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੁਡਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੂਡਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੂਦਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Sudan”
  • Pedi: “Sudan”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Soudan”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Sudan”
  • Persian: “سودان شمالی”
  • Persian: “سودان”
  • Picard: “Soudan”
  • Piemontese: “Sudan”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Sudan”
  • Polish: “Sudan”
  • Portuguese: “Sudão”
  • Pushto: “سوډان”
  • Quechua: “Sudan”
  • Quechua: “Sudán”
  • Quechua: “Suthan”
  • Rakhine: “ဆူဒန်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Sudan”
  • Romansh: “Sudan”
  • Rundi: “Sudani”
  • Russia Buriat: “Судан”
  • Russian: “Республика Судан”
  • Russian: “Судан”
  • Rusyn: “Судан”
  • Sakizaya: “Sudan”
  • Samoan: “Sudan”
  • Samogitian: “Sudans”
  • Sango: “Sudäan”
  • Sanskrit: “सूडान”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱩᱫᱟᱱ”
  • Saraiki: “سوڈان”
  • Sardinian: “Sudan”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Sudan”
  • Scots: “Sudan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sudan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sudàn”
  • Serbian: “Sudan”
  • Serbian: “Судан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sudan”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသူႇတၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Sudan”
  • Shona: “Sudhani”
  • Sicilian: “Sudan”
  • Silesian: “Sudan”
  • Sindhi: “سوڊان”
  • Sinhala: “සුඩානය”
  • Sinhala: “සූඩානය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Sudaan tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Sudaan”
  • Slovak: “Sudán”
  • Slovak: “Sudánska republika”
  • Slovenian: “Sudan”
  • Somali: “Suudaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سودان”
  • Southern Sotho: “Sudan”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Sudan”
  • Spanish: “República de Sudán”
  • Spanish: “Sudan”
  • Spanish: “Sudán”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⵓⴷⴰⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Sudan”
  • Swahili: “Sudan”
  • Swahili: “Sudani”
  • Swati: “ISudani”
  • Swedish: “Nordsudan”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Sudan”
  • Swedish: “Sudan”
  • Swiss German: “Sudan”
  • Sylheti: “ꠍꠥꠖꠣꠘ”
  • Tagalog: “Sudan”
  • Tajik: “Судон”
  • Talysh: “Sudan”
  • Tamil: “சூடான்”
  • Taroko: “Sudan”
  • Tatar: “Судан”
  • Telugu: “సూడాన్”
  • Thai: “ซูดาน”
  • Thai: “ประเทศซูดาน”
  • Tibetan: “སུ་དཱན།”
  • Tibetan: “སུའུ་ཏན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሱዳን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sūteni”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sudan”
  • Tsonga: “Sudan”
  • Tumbuka: “Sudan”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “السودان”
  • Turkish: “Sudan”
  • Turkmen: “Sudan”
  • Twi: “Sudan”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Sudan wu”
  • Tyap: “Sudan”
  • Udmurt: “Судан”
  • Uighur: “سۇدان”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Судан”
  • Ukrainian: “Судан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Republika Sudan”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sudan”
  • Urdu: “سوڈان”
  • Uzbek: “Sudan”
  • Venetian: “Sudan”
  • Veps: “Sudan”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Sudan”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Sudan”
  • Vietnamese: “Sudan”
  • Vietnamese: “Xu-đăng”
  • Vietnamese: “Xuđăng (Sudan)”
  • Vlaams: “Soedan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Sudan”
  • Volapük: “Sudän”
  • Võro: “Sudaan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sudan”
  • Welsh: “Sudan”
  • Welsh: “Swdan”
  • Welsh: “Y Swdan”
  • Western Armenian: “Սուտան”
  • Western Balochi: “سوڈان”
  • Western Frisian: “Soedan”
  • Western Frisian: “Sûdan”
  • Western Mari: “Судан”
  • Western Panjabi: “سودان”
  • Western Panjabi: “سوڈان”
  • Wolof: “Sudaan”
  • Wolof: “Sudaŋ”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏丹”
  • Yakut: “Судаан”
  • Yakut: “Судан”
  • Yiddish: “סודאן”
  • Yiddish: “סודאַן”
  • Yoruba: “Sudan”
  • Yoruba: “Sudani”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇丹”
  • Zeeuws: “Soedan”
  • Zhuang: “Sudan”
  • Zulu: “i-Sudan”
  • Zulu: “ISudan”
  • “ma Sutan”
  • “Sodans”
  • “Sudaan”
  • “Sudan”
  • “सूडान”

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