Sudan
Republic of the Sudan
Jumhuriyat as-Sudan
CAPITAL: Khartoum
FLAG: The national flag consists of a tricolor of red, white, and black horizontal stripes, with a green triangle at the hoist.
ANTHEM: Jundi al-Allah (Soldiers of God).
MONETARY UNIT: The Sudanese dinar (SD) is a paper currency of 100 piasters (qurush) or 1,000 milliemes. SD1 = $0.0038 (or $1 = SD260.39) as of May 2003.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: The metric system is the legal standard, but a highly diverse system based on Egyptian and British standards is in local use.
HOLIDAYS: Independence Day, 1 January; Unity Day, 3 March; Uprising Day, 6 April; Decentralization Day, 1 July; Christmas, 25 December. Movable Muslim religious holidays include the 1st of Muharram (Muslim New Year), 'Id al-Fitr, 'Id al-'Adha', and Milad an-Nabi.
TIME: 2 PM = noon GMT.
Location, Size, and Extent
Situated in northeast Africa, Sudan is the largest country on the continent, covering an area of 2,505,810 sq km (967,499 sq mi), with a length of 2,192 km (1,362 mi) SSE–NNW and a width of 1,880 km (1,168 mi) ENE–WSW. Comparatively, the area occupied by Sudan is slightly more than one-quarter the size of the US. It is bounded on the N by Egypt, on the NE by the Red Sea, on the E by Eritrea and Ethiopia, on the S by Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC), on the W by the Central African Republic and Chad, and on the NW by Libya.
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