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Religion in Sudan (2020 estimate) [1] Islam (90.7%) Christianity (5.4%) Traditional African religions (2.9%) Others / None (1.0%) A Sufi ritual in Omdurman. St. Matthew's Cathedral in Khartoum. The dominant religion in Sudan is Islam practiced by around 90.7% of the nation's population. Christianity is the largest minority faith in country ...
The demographics of Sudan include the Sudanese people (Arabic: سودانيون) and their characteristics, Sudan, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. In Sudan's 1993 census, the population was calculated at 30 million.
Culture of Sudan. Islam is the most common religion in Sudan and Muslims have dominated national government institutions since independence in 1956. According to UNDP Sudan, the Muslim population is 97%, [1] including numerous Arab and non-Arab groups. The remaining 3% ascribe to either Christianity or traditional animist religions.
Sudan, [ c ] officially the Republic of the Sudan, [ d ] is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the southeast, and South Sudan to the south. Sudan has a population of 50 million ...
At the 2011 division which split off South Sudan, over 97% of the population in Sudan in the north, adheres to Islam. [8] Religions followed by the South Sudanese include Christianity (over 60%,majority), traditional indigenous religions and Islam although many Muslims from the south migrated to North Sudan after the independence of South Sudan ...
Later the British colonized the area as a part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. With a population in South Sudan of just over 381,000, the Shilluk represent the country's 5th largest ethnic group. [18] The city of Kodok (formerly Fashoda) serves as the mediating city for the Shilluk King. It is a place where ceremonies and the coronation of each new ...
Sudanese Arabs (Arabic: عرب سودانيون, romanized: ʿarab sūdāniyyūn) are the inhabitants of Sudan who identify as Arabs and speak Arabic as their mother tongue. [4] Some of them are descendants of Arabs who migrated to Sudan from the Arabian Peninsula, [5] although the rest have been described as Arabized indigenous peoples of ...
The Islamization of the Sudan region (Sahel) [1] encompasses a prolonged period of religious conversion, through military conquest and trade relations, spanning the 8th to 16th centuries. Following the 7th century Muslim conquest of Egypt and the 8th-century Muslim conquest of North Africa, Arab Muslims began leading trade expeditions into Sub ...