Contains more pyramids than Egypt - around 200 Nubian pyramids at Meroรซ.
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Sudan
Republic of the Sudan ยท ุงูุณูุฏุงู
Africa
ยท Northern Africa
0Population
1.89Mkmยฒ of land
$713GDP / person
KhartoumCapital
- ISO codes
- SD ยท SDN
- Density
- 23 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic, English
- Currency
- Sudanese pound (SDG)
- Dial code
- +249
- Internet domain
- .sd
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 16.3310ยฐ N, 29.2610ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Sudanese
- UN region
- Northern Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $30.51B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 7
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By the numbers
How Sudan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
35th
of 242 ยท 0.56% of world population
Land area
17th
of 242 ยท 1.26% of world land
GDP per person
222nd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
189th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Sudan
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 42,813,238 people, the 35th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.56 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,886,068 kmยฒ, making it the 17th largest country here - about 7.8 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 23 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Khartoum, at 15.59ยฐ N, 32.53ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 4,754,000.
Shares land borders with 6 countries: Central African Rep., Chad, Egypt, Eritrea and Ethiopia (and 1 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Khartoum.
The currency is the Sudanese pound (SDG, symbol PT).
Has 2 official languages: Arabic and English.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Khartoum
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Khartoum
Khartoum
15.5900ยฐ N, 32.5322ยฐ E
4.75M
2
Omdurman
Khartoum
15.6167ยฐ N, 32.4800ยฐ E
2.4M
3
Port Sudan
Red Sea
19.6158ยฐ N, 37.2164ยฐ E
489.73K
4
Kassala
Kassala
15.4600ยฐ N, 36.3900ยฐ E
401.48K
5
Al-Ubayyid
North Kurdufan
13.1833ยฐ N, 30.2167ยฐ E
393.31K
6
Nyala
South Darfur
12.0600ยฐ N, 24.8900ยฐ E
392.37K
7
El Fasher
Northern Darfur
13.6300ยฐ N, 25.3500ยฐ E
252.61K
8
Geneina
West Darfur
13.4500ยฐ N, 22.4400ยฐ E
162.98K
9
Dongola
Northern
19.1666ยฐ N, 30.4833ยฐ E
26.4K
Land neighbours
6 countries share a border with Sudan.