Sou•dan
We found 3 definitions of soudan from 2 different sources.
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soudan - a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956 | ||
Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, Soudan | ||
africa the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean | ||
arab league an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation | ||
darfur an impoverished region of western Sudan; "Darfur was a semi-independent sultanate until 1917 and is ethnically distinct from central Sudan" | ||
kordofan a mountainous province of central Sudan | ||
capital of sudan, khartoum the capital of Sudan located at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile | ||
nyala spiral-horned South African antelope with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck | ||
port sudan port city in Sudan on the Red Sea | ||
omdurman a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese | ||
libyan desert the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan | ||
nubian desert an arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea | ||
nile, nile river the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization | ||
soudan - a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea | ||
Sudan, Soudan | ||
africa the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean |