SUDAN
(Republic of the Sudan)

Capital: Khartoum

Flag: national flag consists of three-colored red, white and black horizontal strips with a green triangle at the elevator.

Anthem: Zhundi al-Allah (God's Soldiers).

MONETARY BLOCK: Sudanese dinar (sd) - paper currency of 100 piastres (qurush) or 1000 milliem. sd1 = $0.00405 (or $1 = sd247.17) as of 2005.

SCALES AND MEASURES: the metric system is the legal standard, but the very different system based on the Egyptian and British standards is used in local scale.

HOLIDAYS: Independence Day, on January 1; Day of unity, on March 3; Day of a revolt, on April 6; Day of decentralization, on July 1; Christmas, on December 25. Moveable Muslim religious feasts include the 1st Mukharram (Muslim New year), "Ides al-Fitr", "Eid al-Adha" and Milad a-Nabi.

TIME: 14:00 - midday.

ARRANGEMENT, SIZE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Being in northeast Africa, Sudan is the largest country on the continent occupying the space in 2 505 810 sq.km (967 499 quarter. Miles), 2182 km long (1 362 miles) and 1880 km wide (1,168 miles) EN-YUZ. Rather, the area occupied with Sudan is a little more, than on a quarter of the size of the United States. It is limited on е to Egypt, ashore the Red Sea, on E Eritrea and Ethiopia, in the south of Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC), on central the African Republic and Chad and also across Northern Libya.

The Anglo-Egyptian agreement of January 19, 1899 established a parallel 22 ° as the international border between Egypt and Sudan. However in 1902 the special administrative border was designated between Nile and the Red Sea to facilitate management of nomad tribes and to save continuity of some breeding areas in the border area. In 2001 the countries agreed to discuss creation of "area of integration" for this crossed territory, and both governments agreed to withdraw armed forces from the region. The border Egypt-Sudan to the west from Neil passes 892 km (554 miles); to the East from Neil, the international border makes 383 km (238 miles), and the administrative border makes 357 km (222 miles). Including this administrative line, the total length of Sudan is 8 550 km (5 311 miles).
The city of Sudan, Khartoum, is located in a northeast part of the central part of the country.

TOPOGRAPHY

The most part of Sudan is the extensive plain crossed by the northern Nile River and its inflows. Widely divided mountain chains and many hilly areas reach often heights more than 2000 m (6500 feet). The highest height is on the Mount Kinyeti of 3187 m (10 456 feet) along the southern border with Uganda. The northern area generally deserts, including the Nubian Desert, with breed on a surface or near its surface covered with the thin soil with low fertility. The western wavy sandy waste merges to Red sea hills on the East. In the south areas of the swamp lie.