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- <title>
- Sudan: Geography
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Sudan
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Northern Africa, along the Red Sea, between Egypt
- and Ethiopia
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 2,505,810 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 2.376 million km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly more than one-quarter the size of
- the US</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: total 7,697 km, Central African Republic
- 1,165 km, Chad 1,360 km, Egypt 1,273 km, Ethiopia 2,221 km,
- Kenya 232 km, Libya 383 km, Uganda 435 km, Zaire 628 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 853 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> contiguous zone: 18 nm</l>
- <l> continental shelf: 200 m depth or to depth of
- exploitation</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: administrative boundary with Kenya
- does not coincide with international boundary; administrative
- boundary with Egypt does not coincide with international
- boundary creating the "Hala'ib Triangle," a barren area of
- 20,580 km2, the dispute over this area escalated in 1993
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical in south; arid desert in north; rainy season
- (April to October)
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: generally flat, featureless plain; mountains in east
- and west
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: small reserves of petroleum, iron ore,
- copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 5%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 24%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 20%</l>
- <l> other: 51%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 18,900 km2 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Environment: dominated by the Nile and its tributaries; dust
- storms; desertification
- </p>
- <p>Note: largest country in Africa
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