Sudan

[soo-dan]

noun

1. a region in North Africa, south of the Sahara and Libyan Deserts, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.

2. Formerly Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Also called North Sudan. Republic of the Sudan, a republic in northeastern Africa, south of Egypt and bordering on the Red Sea: a former condominium of Egypt and Great Britain. 728,215 square miles (1,886,068 square kilometers). Khartoum.

Sudan

/ -ˈdæn, suːˈdɑːn /

noun

1. Former name (1899–1956): Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. French name: Soudan. a republic in NE Africa, on the Red Sea: conquered by Mehemet Ali of Egypt (1820–22) and made an Anglo-Egyptian condominium in 1899 after joint forces defeated the Mahdist revolt; became a republic in 1956; a lengthy civil war between separatists in the mainly Christian south and the government resulted in independence for South Sudan following a referendum in 2011. It consists mainly of a plateau, with the Nubian Desert in the north. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: Muslim; there are Christian and animist minorities. Currency: Sudanese pound or Sudani (replacing the Sudanese dinar in 2007). Capital: Khartoum. Pop: 34 847 910 (2013 est). Area: 1 861 484 sq km (718 723 sq miles)

2. a region stretching across Africa south of the Sahara and north of the tropical zone: inhabited chiefly by Negroid tribes rather than Arabs

Sudan

1. Republic in northeastern Africa, bordered on the north by Egypt (see also Egypt); on the east by the Red Sea and Ethiopia; on the south by Kenya, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of Congo; and on the west by the Central African Republic, Chad, and Libya. Its capital is Khartoum, and its largest city is Omdurman.

Sudan was under the joint rule of Britain and Egypt (though Britain exercised actual control) from 1899 to 1956.

Recently, it has been plagued by famine and civil war.

Example Sentences

The swathes of fertile farmland in Sudan, Africa's third-largest country and a potential agricultural breadbasket, have whetted the appetite of the desert Gulf countries across the Red Sea.

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Thus was born, in time, the Abraham Accords, an economic and diplomatic normalization treaty involving Israel, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Sudan and, most recently, Kazakhstan.

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Many of the residents here have fled the civil war in South Sudan, only to encounter a new challenge: the erosion of international aid that residents rely on to survive.

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Now in its third year, Sudan's war has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced nearly 12 million more and triggered what the UN describes as the world's largest displacement and hunger crisis.

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“The resumption of Novorossiysk port countered price gains tied to rising U.S.-Venezuela tensions and attacks on Sudan’s oil infrastructure,” the analyst adds.

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