Sudan

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
SD
ISO alpha-3
SDN
ISO numeric
729
FIPS 10-4
SU
GeoNames ID
366755

Key facts

Capital
Khartoum
Area
1,861,484 km²
Population
41,801,533
Currency
Pound (SDG)
Calling code
+249
Top-level domain
.sd
Official languages
ar-SD,en,fia

Continent

Name
Africa
Code
AF
In this dataset
58 countries

Africa in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
16
Longitude
30
Min latitude
8.681641744000046
Min longitude
21.809448690000124
Max latitude
22.226964823000102
Max longitude
38.603851759000065

Boundary

Sudan

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/SD?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 1861484,
    "capital": "Khartoum",
    "continent_code": "AF",
    "currency_code": "SDG",
    "iso3_code": "SDN",
    "iso_code": "SD",
    "name": "Sudan",
    "population": 41801533
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/SD/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=SD
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=SD
  • /v1/timezones?country=SD
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Name in other languages

Arabic
السودان
Chinese
苏丹
English
Sudan
French
Soudan
German
Sudan
Hindi
सूडान
Italian
Sudan
Japanese
スーダン
Korean
수단
Portuguese
Sudão
Russian
Судан
Spanish
Sudán
Total language variants
141

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Africa/Khartoum UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00

Postal code format

Format
#####
Pattern
^(\d{5})$

First-level administrative regions

  • Khartoum
  • North Kordofan
  • South Darfur
  • Al Jazirah State
  • Kassala State
  • Central Darfur State
  • North Darfur
  • Al Qadarif State
  • South Kordofan
  • Sennar
  • West Darfur
  • River Nile
  • East Darfur
  • Red Sea
  • West Kordofan State
  • White Nile
  • Northern
  • Blue Nile

18 of 18 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Khartoum 1,974,647
Omdurman 1,849,659
Khartoum North 1,012,211
Nyala 565,734
Port Sudan 489,725
Kassala 401,477
El Obeid 393,311
Al Qadarif 363,945
Kosti 345,068
Wad Medani 332,714

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
8,153
First-level regions
18
Postal codes
0
Name languages
141
Boundary polygon
Yes

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