Sudan

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Type Country
Usage English, Arabic, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Malay, Chinese, Thai
Scripts سودان(Arabic) Судан(Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian) 苏丹(Chinese) ซูดาน(Thai)
Pronounced Pron. /suː.ˈdaːn/(Arabic)

Meaning & History

From Arabic سود (sūd) meaning "black", referring to the darker skin of the inhabitants. This is the name of a country in Africa. In Arabic it is properly written with the definite article: السودان (al-Sūdān).