Where is Sudan Located?
Where is Sudan located on the map? Sudan is an independent nation located in Northern Africa. Check out the following images to see location of Sudan on maps.
Sudan Location in World Map
Sudan is a country in northeast Africa. A narrow strip of coast borders the Red Sea. In the north of Sudan are the Libyan and Nubian Deserts. It is very dry in the Nubian Desert, there are not even oases here.
Sudan borders Libya and Egypt in the north. Chad is to the west, the Central African Republic to the southwest, South Sudan to the south, Ethiopia to the southeast and Eritrea to the east.
Sudan is located in the northeast of Africa.
Sudan was the largest state in Africa for a long time – until it separated from South Sudan in 2011. Since then, Sudan has been the third largest state on the African continent, so it’s still pretty big. It has an area of almost 1.9 million square kilometers.
Only Algeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are larger than Sudan in terms of area. By the way, the official name is “Sudan”, but you will often find the country name with the article and then it means “Sudan”. In colloquial language, Sudan with an article is more common, which is why we also use it on the children’s world tour.
On this map you can see the location of Sudan and the countries it borders.
Sudan was the largest state in Africa for a long time – until it separated from South Sudan in 2011. Since then, Sudan has been the third largest state on the African continent, so it’s still pretty big. It has an area of almost 1.9 million square kilometers.
Only Algeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are larger than Sudan in terms of area. By the way, the official name is “Sudan”, but you will often find the country name with the article and then it means “Sudan”. In colloquial language, Sudan with an article is more common, which is why we also use it on the children’s world tour.
Mountains and Rivers
The river Nile flows right through the country. At Khartoum the White and Blue Nile unite to form the Nile. There is fertile land on the banks of the Nile.
But more than 50 percent of the country are deserts. The north belongs to the Sahara. The Libyan Desert lies west of the Nile and the Nubian Desert east of the Nile. Both belong to the Sahara. To the south, the Sahara merges into the Sahel zone.
The Nile basin is connected to the Ethiopian highlands in the east and the mountains of the Jibal al-Bahr al-Ahmar on the Red Sea in the northeast. The highest mountain in Sudan, the Jebel Marra with 3042 meters, is located in the far west in the Dafur Mountains. In the south are the Nuba Mountains, which at least reach a height of over 1,300 meters.
18 percent of Sudan are forest or scrubland. 22 percent take up the meadow and pasture land for the animals. Only five percent is used for arable farming.
Climate
Sudan’s weather is largely tropical and it gets very hot. In the capital Khartoum, the average temperature in January is 23 degrees and in July 31 degrees. In the desert country of the north, the thermometer sometimes climbs up to 50 degrees in summer and temperatures often don’t drop below 40 degrees in winter either. However, the nights are often cool.
In the north there is almost no rain, sometimes for many years. The consequence of this is drought and aridity in the region. In the south of the country it rains a lot more. Sometimes there is a risk that in some regions, during a period of great drought, a prolonged, heavy rainy season will fall, which will lead to flooding, as the soil cannot absorb the water. Too little water is bad, but too much at once is bad too.
Sudan Facts
| Size | 1,861,484 km² |
| Residents | 42.8 million |
| Languages | English and Arabic |
| Capital | Khartoum |
| Longest river | Nile (total length 6,852 km) |
| Highest mountain | Jebel Marra (3,042 m) |
| Currency | Sudanese pound |
