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Practice Sudan

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Sudan

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People are called
Sudanese
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+249
Capital
Khartoum
Population
40,533,330
Area
1,840,687 km2
Climate
Desert or arid
Government
Military-led transitional government
Currency
Sudanese pound
Languages
Arabic, English, Nubian
Sells
crude petroleum, gold, oil seeds, sheep and goats
Sells to
UAE 21%, China 17%, Saudi Arabia 16%
Land borders
7: Central African Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia ...
Drives on the
right
Calling code
+249
Founded
1956
Hemisphere
Northern

WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED

Sudanese

These are English demonyms for people from Sudan. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.

Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)

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SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS

Civilizations, flags & standards

Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.

A sourced civilization and flag trail has not been added for Sudan yet. No ancient flag is inferred from the modern one.

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Turning points

A curated timeline is not available yet. Explore the country's history and the historical figures below.

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Religion: state & society

An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.

Official status and a dated affiliation breakdown have not been checked for this country. The atlas's religion tags are not a population ranking.

BEYOND THE MAP

Sudan in the study desk

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Where it is

Languages

Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.

Arabicofficial
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Englishofficial
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Fur
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Largest cities

Khartoum  capital 1,974,647
Omdurman 1,849,659
Khartoum North 1,012,211
Nyala 565,734
Port Sudan 489,725

Wars and conflicts

Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.

Form of government

Military-led transitional government.

Climate and geography

hot and dry; arid desert; rainy season varies by region (April to November)

Highest point

Northern hemisphere.

Figures from its history

Muhammad Ahmad
Muhammad Ahmad The Mahdi, who took Khartoum in 1885 Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Faḥal was a Sudanese religious and political leader.
Omar al-Bashir
Omar al-Bashir Ruler, 1989-2019, indicted for Darfur Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as head of state of Sudan under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état.

Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: famous, government type, leaders, wars.