Sudan
Sudan Sudan (officially: the Republic of Sudan), is an Arab country located in northeastern Africa, bordered to the east by Ethiopia and Eritrea, to the north by Egypt and Libya, to the west by Chad and the Central African Republic, and to the south by the State of South Sudan. It is the third largest country in terms of area in Africa, as well as being the third largest Arab country in terms of area. Before the Sudanese Civil War, South Sudan was part of Sudan, but it separated in 2011. The dominant religion in Sudan is Islam. Sudan is located in northeastern Africa and occupies an area of 1,865,813 square kilometers. It is thus the third largest country in Africa after Algeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the third in the Arab world after Algeria and Saudi Arabia, and the sixteenth in the world (it was the largest area in the Arab world and Africa before separation South in 2011, the tenth globally, with an area of approximately 2 million km2). ...