Sudan country profile

Lead Author: Maggie Surface (other articles)
This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Lakhdar Boukerrou (other articles)
Last Updated: June 4, 2008

Map of Sudan. (Source: EIA)
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Map of Sudan. (Source: EIA)

Figure 3. Solar power provides electricity for a field hospital in the rebel-held Nuba Mountains, Sudan, February 2000. (Source: D. Cannell/The Image Works TopFoto)
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Figure 3. Solar power provides electricity for a field hospital in the rebel-held Nuba Mountains, Sudan, February 2000. (Source: D. Cannell/The Image Works TopFoto)

 

  1. General overview
  2. Water in Sudan
  3. Energy in Sudan
  4. Human Development Index
  5. Ecoregions:
    1. East African montane forests
    2. East Saharan montane xeric woodlands
    3. East Sudanian savanna
    4. Ethiopian montane forests
    5. Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands
    6. Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
    7. Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
    8. Sahara desert
    9. Saharan flooded grasslands
    10. Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
    11. South Saharan steppe and woodlands
    12. Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands

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Surface, Maggie (Lead Author); Lakhdar Boukerrou (Topic Editor). 2008. "Sudan country profile." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of Earth June 4, 2008; Retrieved November 21, 2009]. <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Sudan_country_profile>
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