Sudan
Sudan is a vast country in northeast Africa where the Blue and White Nile converge in the capital, Khartoum. It holds more ancient pyramids than Egypt—over 200 Nubian pyramids at Meroë, Nuri, and Jebel Barkal, built by the Kingdom of Kush.
Cities & regions
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Al-Fashir, usually written El Fasher, is the capital of North Darfur and a city of more than 260,000 people set on the sandy plains of western Sudan where th…
Open guideDongola (Dunqulah) is the capital of Northern State, a quiet, palm-shaded town strung along the west bank of the Nile in the heart of Nubia, roughly midway b…
Open guideEl-Obeid (Al-Ubayyid) is the capital of North Kordofan and Sudan's eighth-largest city, home to more than 418,000 people, sitting about 400 km southwest of K…
Open guideKassala sits in eastern Sudan on the seasonal Gash river, a few kilometres from the Eritrean border, and it is the most visually striking city in the country…
Open guideKhartoum is Sudan's capital, built at Al-Mogran, the point where the Blue Nile (flowing down from Ethiopia) and the White Nile (arriving from Uganda) meet to…
Open guideNyala is the capital of South Darfur and one of the largest cities in western Sudan, sitting roughly 900 km southwest of Khartoum at about 686 m elevation on…
Open guideOmdurman sits on the west bank of the Nile, directly across the water from Khartoum, and is the largest and most Sudanese of the three cities that make up th…
Open guidePort Sudan (Bur Sudan) is Sudan's main seaport and the capital of Red Sea State, a working harbour city of roughly 580,000 people laid out on a flat, hot coa…
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