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Sudan
Location marker · geographic overview
15° N / 30° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Khartoum
- Population
- 50,448,963 2024
- Area
- 1,886,068 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Arabic, English
- Currency
- Sudanese pound (SDG)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Sudan
Sudan (Arabic: السودان, As-Sudan) is a country in Northeast Africa and is Africa's third largest country in terms of area.
Food & everyday culture
Sudanese cuisine has various influences, but none of them dominates the regional culinary cultures. Among the influences are from Egyptian, Ethiopian, Yemeni and Turkish cuisines (meatballs, pastries and spices), but there are also numerous dishes that are common to all Arabian nations.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-15. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Northern Africa
- Calling code
- +249
- Internet domain
- .sd
- Land border codes
- CAF, TCD, EGY, ERI, ETH, LBY, SSD
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .sd. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.