Sudan

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /suːˈdɑːn/
• (America) IPA: /suˈdæn/, /suˈdɑn/

Proper noun

1. Country in Northeast Africa

   Often used with the definite article "the".

   1. Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885
   2. Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898
   3. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955
   4. Republic of the Sudan, since 1955
2. A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
3. (historical) Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).

Translations

• French: Soudan
• German: Sudan
• Italian: Sudan
• Portuguese: Sudão
• Russian: Суда́н
• Spanish: Sudán

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