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Sudan flag information

Description flag of Sudan

three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white and black with a green isosceles triangle based on the hoist side

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Official country name

Republic of the Sudan

Short name

Sudan

Local names

Jumhuriyat as-Sudan (long)
As-Sudan (short)

Former name

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

Nationality

Sudanese (singular and plural) (noun) As-Sudan (adjective)

Languages spoken

Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages

Notes

program of ""Arabization"" in process

Capital

Khartoum

Government type

Government of National Unity (GNU) - the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) formed a power-sharing government under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA); the NCP, which came to power by military coup in 1989, is the majority partner; the agreement stipulates national elections in 2009

Population

40,218,456 ranked 33, (data 2008)

Geography

largest country in Africa; dominated by the Nile and its tributaries. The lowest point is Red Sea 0 m.

Coastline

Coastline 853 km.

Land borders

7,687km, Central African Republic 1,165 km, Chad 1,360 km, Democratic Republic of the Congo 628 km, Egypt 1,273 km, Eritrea 605 km, Ethiopia 1,606 km, Kenya 232 km, Libya 383 km, Uganda 435 km.

Administrative divisions

25 states (wilayat, singular - wilayah); A'ali an Nil (Upper Nile), Al Bahr al Ahmar (Red Sea), Al Buhayrat (Lakes), Al Jazirah (El Gezira), Al Khartum (Khartoum), Al Qadarif (Gedaref), Al Wahdah (Unity), An Nil al Abyad (White Nile), An Nil al Azraq (Blue Nile), Ash Shamaliyah (Northern), Bahr al Jabal (Bahr al Jebel), Gharb al Istiwa'iyah (Western Equatoria), Gharb Bahr al Ghazal (Western Bahr al Ghazal), Gharb Darfur (Western Darfur), Janub Darfur (Southern Darfur), Janub Kurdufan (Southern Kordofan), Junqali (Jonglei), Kassala (Kassala), Nahr an Nil (River Nile), Shamal Bahr al Ghazal (Northern Bahr al Ghazal), Shamal Darfur (Northern Darfur), Shamal Kurdufan (Northern Kordofan), Sharq al Istiwa'iyah (Eastern Equatoria), Sinnar (Sinnar), Warab (Warab)

Independence

1 January 1956 (from Egypt and UK)