Articles in Sudan ( 146 )

146 Articles of interest in Sudan

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  • Sudan

    Sudan (Arabic: السودانas-Sūdān /suˈdn/), officially the Republic of the Sudan (Arabic: جمهورية السودانJumhūrīyat as-Sūdān), is a sovereign country in the Nile Valley of North Africa, bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea, Eritrea and Eth…

  • Khartoum

    Khartoum (/kɑrˈtm/ kar-TOOM) is the capital and second largest city of the Republic of Sudan and of the Sudanese state of Khartoum. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile, flowing wes…

  • Darfur

    Darfur (Arabic: دار فورDār Fūr, English: Realm of the Fur) is a region in western Sudan. It was firstly named Dardaju (Arabic: دار داجو‎) when the Daju, who migrated from Meroe c.350 AD, were ruling. Then renamed Dartunjur (Arabic: دار تنجر‎) when…

  • Meroë

    Meroë (/ˈmɛr/; also spelled Meroe; Meroitic: Medewi or Bedewi; Arabic: مرواه Meruwah and مروى Meruwi; Ancient Greek: Μερόη, Meróē) is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan,…

  • Geography of Ethiopia

    Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south.

  • Port Sudan

    Port Sudan (Arabic: بور سودان‎ Bōr Sūdān / Pōr Sūdān ) is a port city in Sudan, and the capital of the state of Red Sea. As of 2007, it has 489,725 residents.

  • Geography of Sudan

    Sudan is located in northeastern Africa. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the…

  • Abyei

    The Abyei Area (Arabic: أبيي‎) is an area of 10,546 square kilometres (2,606,000 acres) (4,072 sq mi) in Sudan accorded "special administrative status" by the 2004 Protocol on the Resolution of the Abyei Conflict (Abyei Protocol) in the Comprehensiv…

  • Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory

    The Al-Shifa (الشفاء, Arabic for "healing") pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum North, Sudan, was constructed between 1992 and 1996 with components imported from the United States, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, India, and Thailand.

  • Kerma

    Kerma (also known as Dukki Gel) was the capital city of the Kingdom of Kerma, which was located in present day Egypt and Sudan at least 5,500 years ago. Kerma is one of the largest archaeological sites in ancient Nubia.

  • Nuba Mountains

    The Nuba Mountains (also referred to as the Nuba Hills) is an area located in South Kordofan, Sudan. The area is home to a group of indigenous ethnic groups known collectively as the Nuba peoples. In the 18th century, Nuba Mountains became home to t…

  • Nubian Desert

    The Nubian Desert (Arabic: صحراء النوبة‎, Şaḩrā’ an Nūbyah) is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 400,000 km² of northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea. The arid region is rugged and rocky and contains so…

  • Wadi Halfa

    Wādī Ḥalfā (Arabic: وادي حلفا‎) is a city in the Northern state of Sudan on the shores of "Lake Nubia" (the Sudanese section of Lake Nasser). It is the terminus of a rail line from Khartoum and the point where goods are transferred from rail to ferr…

  • Dongola

    Dongola (Arabic: دنقلاDunqulā), also spelled Dunqulah, and formerly known as Al 'Urdi, is the capital of the state of Northern in Sudan, on the banks of the Nile.

  • 2008 TC3

    2008 TC3 (Catalina Sky Survey temporary designation 8TA9D69) was an 80 tonnes 4.1 meters (13 ft) diameter asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008 and exploded at an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan…

  • Jebel Barkal

    Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal (Arabic: جبل بركل‎) is a very small mountain located some 400 km north of Khartoum, in Karima town in Northern State in Sudan, on a large bend of the Nile River, in the region called Nubia. The mountain is 98 m tall, has…

  • University of Khartoum

    University of Khartoum (formerly shortened to UofK) (Arabic: جامعة الخرطوم) is a multi-campus, co-educational, public university located in Khartoum. It is the largest and oldest university in Sudan. UofK was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 19…

  • Kassala

    Kassala (Italian: Cassala ) is the capital of the state of Kassala in eastern Sudan. Its 2008 population was recorded to be 419,030. Built on the banks of the Gash River, it is a market town and is famous for its fruit gardens. Many of its inhabitan…

  • Suakin

    Suakin or Sawakin (Arabic: سواكنSawákin) is a port in north-eastern Sudan, on the west coast of the Red Sea. Suakin was the height of medieval luxury on the Red Sea. In 1983 it had a population of 18,030 and the 2009 estimate is 43, 337. It was fo…

  • Old Dongola

    Old Dongola (Old Nubian: Tungul; Arabic: Dunqulah al-ʿAjūz‎) is a deserted town in Sudan located on the east bank of the Nile opposite the Wadi Al-Malik. An important city in medieval Nubia, and the departure point for caravans west to Darfur and Ko…

  • Nuri

    Nuri is a place in modern Sudan on the south (east) side of the Nile. Close to it, there are pyramids belonging to Nubian kings. Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal.

  • Gezira Scheme

    The Gezira Scheme (Arabic: مشروع الجزيرة‎) is one of the largest irrigation projects in the world. It is centered on the Sudanese state of Al Jazirah, just southeast of the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers at the city of Khartoum.

  • Khartoum North

    Khartoum North or Bahri (Arabic: الخرطوم_بحري‎, al-Kharṭūm Baḥrī) is the third-largest city in the Republic of Sudan.

  • Kerma Culture

    The Kerma Culture was an early civilization that flourished from around 2500 BCE to about 1600 BCE in Nubia in present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Centered at Kerma, it seems to have been one of a number of Nile Valley states during the M…

  • Heglig

    Heglig or Panthou as it is known to the Dinka (also spelled Heglieg or Pandthou) is a small town at the border between the South Kordofan state of Sudan and the Unity State in South Sudan. The entire Heglig or Panthou is recognized by South Sudanese…

  • Sennar

    Sennar (Arabic: سنارSannār) is a town on the Blue Nile in Sudan and capital of the state of Sennar.

  • Bayuda Desert

    The Bayuda Desert is located north of modern Khartoum, Sudan, west of Kadabas, and south of the Nubian Desert, together making up part of the Sahara Desert's eastern flank. It is located at (18°N33°E).

  • Atbarah River

    The Atbarah River (Arabic: نهر عطبرة‎; transliterated: Nahr 'Atbarah) in northeast Africa rises in northwest Ethiopia, approximately 50 km north of Lake Tana and 30 km west of Gondar. It flows about 805 km (500 mi) to the Nile in north-central Sudan…

  • Sudan Airways Flight 139

    Sudan Airways Flight 139 refers to a passenger flight that crashed on 8 July 2003 at Port Sudan. The aircraft was due to operate a domestic scheduled Port Sudan–Khartoum passenger service; some 15 minutes after takeoff it experienced a loss of power…

  • Port Sudan New International Airport

    Port Sudan New International Airport (IATA: PZU, ICAO: HSPN) is an airport serving Port Sudan, Sudan. PZU is the second largest international airport in Sudan in terms of air traffic and international destinations served. Located 20 kilometers south…

  • Wad Madani

    Wad Madani (Arabic: ودمدنيWad Madanī) or (Madani) is the capital of the Al Gezira state in east-central Sudan. Wad Madani lies on the west bank of the Blue Nile, nearly 85 miles (136 km) southeast of Khartoum. It is linked by rail to Khartoum and …