Official name
Republic of the Sudan
Name in local language
جمهورية السودان ; Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān (ar)
Continent
Africa
Subcontinent
East Africa
Population (ranking: 32e )
44,318,058 inhabitants (2021)
Population growth
3.42 % / year
Area
1,886,068 km²
Density
23.50 inhabitants / km²
GDP (ranking: 111e )26.111 billions $USD (2020)
GDP/capita (ranking )
596 $USD (2020)
GDP growth
-1.60 % / year (2020)
Life expectancy (ranking )
65.10 years (2018)
Birth rate
33.05 ‰ (2014)
Fertility rate
4.35 children / woman (2014)
Death rate (ranking )
7.76 ‰ (2014)
Infant mortality rate (ranking )
47.60 ‰ (2015)
Literacy rate
75.90 % (2015)
Official languages
Arabic, English
Currency
Sudanese pound (SDD)
HDI (ranking: 207e )0.510 / 1 (2019)
EPI (ranking )51.49 (2018)
Government
Federal presidential republic (de jure) under a Military junta (de facto)
Head of State
Chairman of the Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
National Day
1st January (independence of 1956)
ISO Codes SD, SDN
Demonym
Sudanese
Tourists (ranking )
813,000 people (2017)
Very strong demographic growth
Sudan is a federal state in northeastern Africa. It is bordered to the north by Egypt , to the east by Eritrea and Ethiopia , to the south by South Sudan , from which it separated in 2011, and to the west by the Central African Republic , Chad and Libya . It is bathed in the east by the Red Sea .
Fields of onions, Kassala, Sudan. Photo: Bertramz, Wikipedia Volcano Djebel Marra Deriba, Sudan. Photo: J Williams Urban areas (2019)
Urban areas
Population
Khartoum
8,524,021 inhabitants
Nyala
738,154 inhabitants
Port Soudan
499,279 inhabitants
Kassala
455,669 inhabitants
al-Ubayyid
420,929 inhabitants
Kusti
415,593 inhabitants
Wad Madani
356,978 inhabitants
al-Qadarif
353,686 inhabitants
al-Fair
275,515 inhabitants
ad-Duayn
242,465 inhabitants
Administrative divisions
States
Population
Area
Al Gedarif
2,108,468 inhabitants
75,263 km²
Al Gezira
4,926,555 inhabitants
27,549 km²
Blue Nile
1,080,743 inhabitants
45,844 km²
Central Darfur (recent creation)
0 inhabitants
0 km²
East Darfur (recent creation)
0 inhabitants
0 km²
Kassala
2,438,808 inhabitants
36,710 km²
Khartoum
7,687,547 inhabitants
22,142 km²
Nile River
1,472,257 inhabitants
122,123 km²
North Darfur
2,296,068 inhabitants
296,420 km²
North Kurdufan
3,160,663 inhabitants
185,302 km²
Northern
913,533 inhabitants
348,765 km²
Red Sea
1,447,787 inhabitants
218,887 km²
Sinnar
1,847,458 inhabitants
37,844 km²
South Darfur
5,220,191 inhabitants
127,300 km²
South Kurdufan
2,047,294 inhabitants
79,470 km²
West Darfur
1,725,110 inhabitants
79,460 km²
West Kurdufan (recent creation)
0 inhabitants
111,373 km²
White Nile
2,410,260 inhabitants
30,411 km²
See also
