Sudan (pronounced /suːˈdæn/ (deprecatit template)), offeecially the Republic o the Sudan, is a kintra in northeastren Africae an the third lairgest kintra in Africae an the Arab warld.
It is bordered bi Egyp to the north, the Red Sea tae the northeast, Eritrea an Ethiopie tae the east, the Sooth Sudan tae the sooth, Chad tae the wast an Libie tae the northwast. The warld's langest river, the Nile, divides the kintra atween east an wast sides.
Republic o the Sudan | |
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Anthem:
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Sudan in daurk green, disputit regions in licht green. | |
Caipital and largest city | Khartoum 15°38′N 032°32′E / 15.633°N 32.533°E |
Offeecial leids | |
Releegion | Islam |
Demonym(s) | Sudanese |
Govrenment | Dominant-pairty federal semi-presidential republic |
• Preses | Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan (عبد الفتاح عبد الرحمن البرهان) |
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (محمد حمدان دقلو) | |
Abdalla Hamdok (عبدالله حمدوك) | |
Legislatur | Naitional Legislatur |
• Upper house | Cooncil o States |
• Lower house | Naitional Assembly |
Formation | |
• Nubian kinricks | 3500 BC |
• Sennar dynasty | 1504 |
• Unified wi Egyp | 1820 |
• Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 1899 |
• Unthirldom (frae the Unitit Kinrick an Egyp) | 1 Januar 1956 |
• Current constitution | 9 Januar 2005 |
• Secession o Sooth Sudan | 9 Julie 2011 |
Aurie | |
• Total | 1,886,068 km2 (728,215 sq mi) (15th) |
Population | |
• 2021 estimate | 44,909,353 (35t) |
• 2008 census | 30,894,000 (disputit) |
• Density | 21.3/km2 (55.2/sq mi) |
GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $186.715 billion |
• Per capita | $4,578 |
GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate |
• Tot | $115.874 billion |
• Per capita | $2,841 |
Gini (2009) | 35.3 medium |
HDI (2015) | 0.490 law · 165th |
Currency | Sudanese poond (SDG) |
Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
Drivin side | right |
Cawin code | +249 |
ISO 3166 code | SD |
Internet TLD | .sd, سودان. |
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