Sudan, country located in northeastern Africa.The name Sudan derives from the Arabic expression bilād al-sūdān (“land of the blacks”), by which medieval Arab geographers referred to the settled African countries that began at the southern edge of the Sahara.For more than a century, Sudan—first as a colonial holding, then as an independent country—included its neighbour South Sudan ... More @Wikipedia
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