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Sudan (region)
| Sudan بِلَادُ السُّوْدَان | |
|---|---|
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| Ecology | |
| Borders | Sahara |
| Geography | |
| Rivers | Chari, Niger, and the White Nile |
Sudan is the geographical region to the south of the Sahara, stretching from Western Africa to Central and Eastern Africa. The name derives from the Arabic bilād as-sūdān (بلاد السودان) and arḍ as-sūdān (أَرْض السودان), both meaning "the land of the Blacks", referring to West Africa and northern Central Africa.[1]
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- ^ International Association for the History of Religions (1959), Numen, Leiden: EJ Brill, p. 131,
West Africa may be taken as the country stretching from Senegal in the west, to the Cameroons in the east; sometimes it has been called the central and western Sudan, the Bilad as-Sūdan, 'Land of the Blacks', of the Arabs
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