Sudan
Sudan (officially Republic of the Sudan) is a country in Northern Africa, with its capital at Khartoum, and is home to roughly 50.4M people.
Its official languages are Arabic, English; the currency in circulation is Sudanese pound (PT); people from here are called Sudanese.
- »Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt, built by the Kingdom of Kush at Meroë.
Sudan touches seven neighbours: Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Egypt to the north, Eritrea to the east, Ethiopia to the southeast, Libya to the northwest and South Sudan to the south. Directions run from one centre to the other. Neighbours in seven different compass directions make this one of the better-connected outlines in the set.
Khartoum sits where the Blue Nile and White Nile join, and the meeting of the two differently coloured waters is visible from the air.
1,863,674 km² (719,568 sq mi), 15th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Indonesia.
Population 50,448,963, 30th of 198 on file. That averages 27 per km² (70 per sq mi).
Pan-Arab colours with a green triangle at the hoist. Red for struggle, white for peace, black for Sudan itself, the name comes from the Arabic for 'land of the blacks'.