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Sudan Culture, Geography and History

Geography and Environment of Sudan

  • Herding camels in the desert

Sudan’s north is home to the Libyan and Nubian deserts, where the dunes are broken by the occasional oasis and patches of green along the Nile. Further south, desert gives way to savannah and more tropical climes. This is Sudan’s agricultural basin, fed by the waters of the Blue and White Niles. But even here life can be hard and the deserts to the north blow their sands in July and August. Sudan is bordered by the Red Sea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Chad, Libya and South Sudan.


History and Government of Sudan


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Recommended Reading

  • What is the What - Dave Eggers
  • The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur - Daoud Hari
  • They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan - Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsian Deng and Judy Bernstein

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Sudan at a glance

  • 9
  • Khartoum (population 2 million)
  • 34.3 million
  • Arabic, English
  • SDG
  • (GMT+03:00) Nairobi
  • Type C (European 2-pin), Type D (Old British 3-pin)
  • +249

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