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Northern Sudan –lying between the Egyptian border and Sennar– has two distinct parts, the desert and the Nile Valley. [1] To the east of the Nile is the Nubian Desert and to the west, the Libyan Desert. [1] Both are stony, with sandy dunes drifting over the landscape. [1] There is virtually no rainfall in these deserts. [1]
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The Cairo–Cape Town Highway passes through the Nubian Desert. The largest city of the Nubian Desert is Port Sudan, at the eastern end of the desert on the Red Sea. Other important cities of the Nubian Desert are Atbara on the river of the same name and Massawa on the Red Sea. The town of Abidiya is on the Nile river.
The Red Sea coastal desert extends north and south along the Red Sea and Gulf of Suez, which bound it on the east.It includes both a narrow coastal strip and the Red Sea Hills, a range of coastal mountains that runs parallel to the coast.
Fragment of Bayuda Desert seen from space Bayuda desert with some acacian trees Desert well used by Bisharin nomadic pastoralists. The Bayuda Desert, located at , is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 100,000 km 2 of northeast Sudan north of Omdurman and south of Korti, embraced by the great bend of the Nile in the north, east, and south and limited by the Wadi ...
Map of Nile tributaries in modern Sudan. Wadi Howar is the remnant of the ancient Yellow Nile, a tributary of the Nile during the African humid period from about 9500 to 4500 years ago. At that time, savanna fauna and cattle herders occupied this region and the southern edge of the Sahara was some 500 kilometres (310 mi) further north than it ...
The South Saharan steppe and woodlands, also known as the South Sahara desert, is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion of northern Africa. This band is a transitional region between the Sahara's very arid center (the Sahara desert ecoregion ) to the north, and the wetter Sahelian Acacia savanna ecoregion to the south. [ 1 ]
A map of Sudan. The Hala'ib Triangle has been under contested Egyptian administration since 2000. A Köppen climate classification map of Sudan. Sudan is situated in North Africa, with an 853 km (530 mi) coastline bordering the Red Sea. [208] It has land borders with Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Chad, and ...