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Darfur (/ d ɑːr ˈ f ʊər / dar-FOOR; Arabic: دار فور, romanized: Dār Fūr, lit. 'Realm of the Fur') is a region of western Sudan. Dār is an Arabic word meaning "home [of]" – the region was named Dardaju (Arabic: دار داجو, romanized: Dār Dājū) while ruled by the Daju, who migrated from Meroë c. 350 AD, and it was renamed Dartunjur (Arabic: دار تنجر, romanized ...
Pages in category "Deserts of Sudan" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bayuda Desert; E.
A railroad hotel was built in the town during the 20th century, and during World War II, Wadi Halfa was a communications post for Allied forces in Africa. By 1956, the town had grown to a population of 11,000. [10] On 8 November 1959, the signing of the Sudanese-UAR Nile Water Agreement brought the area into much debate.
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.
Bir Tawil (Egyptian Arabic: بير طويل, romanized: Bīr Ṭawīl, lit. 'tall water well', [biːɾ tˤɑˈwiːl]) is a 2,060 km 2 (795.4 sq mi) area of land along the border between Egypt and Sudan, which is uninhabited and claimed by neither country.
Flowing through the desert is the Nile Valley, whose alluvial strip of habitable land is no more than two kilometers wide and whose productivity depends on the annual flood. [1] The desert of east Sudan. Sudan's western front encompasses the regions known as Darfur and Kurdufan that comprise 850,000 square kilometers. [1]
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 ...
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.