Sudan (
Arabic:
السودان
as-Sūdān
i// or
//;
[9]), officially the
Republic of the Sudan[10] (
Arabic:
جمهورية السودان
Jumhūrīyat
as-Sūdān) is an
Arab
republic in the
Nile Valley of
North Africa, bordered by
Egypt to the north, the
Red Sea,
Eritrea and
Ethiopia to the east,
South Sudan to the south, the
Central
African Republic to the southwest,
Chad
to the west and
Libya to the northwest.
The
Nile River divides the country into
eastern and western halves.
[11] Its predominant
religion is
Islam.
[12]
Almost one-fifth of Sudan's population lives below the
international poverty line which
means living on less than US$1.25 per day.
[13]
More at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan
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