Khartoum

Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm) is the caipital o Sudan an o Khartoum State.  It is locatit at the confluence o the White Nile flowin north frae Lake Victoria, an the Blue Nile flowin wast frae Ethiopie. The location whaur the twa Niles meet is kent as "al-Mogran". The main Nile continues tae flow north towards Egyp an the Mediterranean Sea.

Dividit bi the Niles, Khartoum is a tripartite metropolis wi an estimatit oweraw population o ower a million fowk consistin o Khartoum proper, an linkt bi briges tae Khartoum North cawed (al-Khartūm Bahrī) an Omdurman (Umm Durmān) tae the wast.

 Etymology 
The wird 'Khartoum' is derived frae Arabic Al-Jartūm الجرطوم meanin "end o an elephant’s trunk", probably referrin tae the narrae strip o land extendin atween the Blue an White Niles.Room, Adrian (2006), Placenames of the World (Second edition)., McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-2248-3. p. 194  Captain J. A. Grant, who reached Khartoum in 1863 wi Captain Speke’s expedition, thocht that the derivation wis maist probably frae the safflower (Carthamus Tinctorius L.) which is cawed 'Gartoon,' an which wis cultivatit extensively in Egyp for its ile, uised in burnin.

 Twin ceeties 
 Amman, Jordan
 Cairo, Egyp
 Istanbul, Turkey
 Ankara, Turkey
 Saunt Petersburg, Roushie
 Wuhan, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
 Asmara, Eritrea
 Addis Ababa, Ethiopie
 Omdurman, Sudan
 Hargeisa, Somaliland

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Category:Caipitals in Africae
Category:Communities on the Nile River
Category:Khartoum (state)
Category:Populatit places in Sudan
Category:Populatit places established in 1821
Category:State caipitals in Sudan