Sudan

**Sudan**, officially de **Republic of the Sudan**, be a country insyd Northeast Africa. E dey border de Central African Republic to de southwest, Chad to de west, Libya to de northwest, Egypt to de north, de Red Sea to de east, Eritrea den Ethiopia to de southeast, den South Sudan to de south. Sudan get a population of 50 million people as of 2024 wey e dey occupy 1,886,068 square kilometres (728,215 square miles), wey dey make am Africa ein third-largest country by area den de third-largest by area insyd de Arab League. Na ebe de largest country by area insyd Africa den de Arab League til de secession of South Sudan insyd 2011; since then na Algeria hold both titles. Sudan ein capital den most populous city be Khartoum.

Na Islam be Sudan ein state religion wey na dem dey apply de Islamic laws from 1983 til 2020 wen de country cam turn a secular state. Sudan be a least developed country den among de poorest countries for de world insyd, wey dey rank 170th for de Human Development Index as of 2024 den 185th by nominal GDP per capita. Ein economy dey largely rely for agriculture top secof international sanctions den isolation, as well as a history of internal instability den factional violence. De large majority of Sudan be dry den over 60% of Sudan ein population dey live insyd poverty. Sudan be a member of de United Nations, Arab League, African Union, COMESA, Non-Aligned Movement den de Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

## Government den politics

### Administrative divisions
Dem divide Sudan into 18 states (*wilayat*, sing. *wilayah*). Dem further divide dem into 133 districts.

## Demographics

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## Bibliography
**Books**

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* Berry, LaVerle B., ed. (2015). *[https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo63176 Sudan: A Country Study]*. Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) .
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* Churchill, Winston (1899; 2000). *The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan*. Carroll & Graf (New York City). .
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* Clammer, Paul (2005). *Sudan: The Bradt Travel Guide*. Bradt Travel Guides (Chalfont St. Peter); Globe Pequot Press. (Guilford, Connecticut). .
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* Evans-Pritchard, Blake; Polese, Violetta (2008). *Sudan: The City Trail Guide*. City Trail Publishing. .
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* El Mahdi, Mandour. (1965). A Short History of the Sudan. Oxford University Press. .
* Fadlalla, Mohamed H. (2005). *The Problem of Dar Fur*, iUniverse (New York City). .
* Fadlalla, Mohamed H. (2004). *Short History of Sudan*. iUniverse (New York City). .
* Fadlalla, Mohamed H. (2007). *UN Intervention in Dar Fur*, iUniverse (New York City). .
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* Jok, Jok Madut (2007). *Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence*. Oneworld Publications (Oxford). .
* Köndgen, Olaf (2017). *The Codification of Islamic Criminal Law in the Sudan. Penal Codes and Supreme Court Case Law under Numayri and al-Bashir*. Brill (Leiden, Boston). .
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* Mwakikagile, Godfrey (2001). *Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan: The State Against Blacks*, in *The Modern African State: Quest for Transformation*. Nova Science Publishers (Huntington, New York). .
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* Peterson, Scott (2001). *Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda—A Journalist Reports from the Battlefields of Africa*. Routledge (London; New York City). .
* Prunier, Gérard (2005). *Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide*. Cornell University Press (Ithaca, New York). .
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* Zilfū, ʻIṣmat Ḥasan (translation: Clark, Peter) (1980). *Karari: The Sudanese Account of the Battle of Omdurman*. Frederick Warne & Co (London). .
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## External links

* Key Development Forecasts for Sudan from International Futures

### Government
* Information Portal – Official Sudan Information Portal
* Presidency Archived 6 October 2024 at the Wayback Machine – official website of the president of Sudan
* Statistics Archived 15 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine – official website of Central Bureau of Statistics

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