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Detailed Analysis for Year: 2010
Full Dataset: from 1993 to 2008
Dataset updated: 1st August 2011
Data Source: CIA Factbook
National or Regional Currency: Sudanese Pound
Currency Symbol: SDG
Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea
Geographic coordinates: 15 00 N, 30 00 E
Map references: Africa
Area: total: 2,505,813 sq km land: 2.376 million sq km water: 129,813 sq km
Area - comparative: slightly more than one-quarter the size of the US
Terrain: generally flat, featureless plain; mountains in far south, northeast, and west; desert dominates the north
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Red Sea 0 m highest point: Kinyeti 3,187 m
Land boundaries: total: 7,687 km border countries: Central African Republic 1,165 km, Chad 1,360 km, Democratic Republic of the Congo 628 km, Egypt 1,273 km, Eritrea 605 km, Ethiopia 1,606 km, Kenya 232 km, Libya 383 km, Uganda 435 km
Coastline: 853 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 18 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Geography - note: largest country in Africa; dominated by the Nile and its tributaries