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Sudan.

A country in North Africa and East Africa.

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Meaning & usage

name/suːˈdɑːn/Received-Pronunciation/suːˈdæn/Received-Pronunciation/sʉwˈdɑːn/British, Southern, Standard/sʉwˈdan/British, Southern, Standard

  1. A country in North Africa and East Africa.

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  2. A country in North Africa and East Africa. Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885

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  3. A country in North Africa and East Africa. Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898

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  4. A country in North Africa and East Africa. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955

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  5. A country in North Africa and East Africa. Republic of the Sudan, since 1955

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  6. A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa

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  7. Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).

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  8. A minor city in Lamb County, Texas, United States, apparently named after the African region.

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Where this word comes from

Derived from Arabic سُودَان (sūdān, “black people”), plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad).

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