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  1. Province of central Sudan, known as the
  2. `White Land'; area 146,990 sq km/ 56,752 sq
  3. mi; population (1983) 3,093,300. Although
  4. never an independent state, it has a
  5. character of its own. It is mainly undulating
  6. plain, with acacia scrub producing gum
  7. arabic, marketed in the chief town El Obeid.
  8. Formerly a rich agricultural region, it has
  9. been overtaken by desertification.
  10.