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sudan
/suˈdæn/
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What does sudan mean?
noun
- A traditional Korean punch, made from boiled rice flour cakes and honeyed water, often consumed on holidays.
proper noun
- A country in North Africa and East Africa.
- Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885
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proper noun
- Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955
- Republic of the Sudan, since 1955
- A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
- A minor city in Lamb County, Texas, United States, apparently named after the African region.
- (historical) Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).
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IPA pronunciation
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Overview: Sudan is buffeted by civil war, chronic political instability, adverse weather, high inflation, and counterproductive economic policies.
But it is a fact that many striking parallels to Egyptian religious belief and practice have been traced among races of the Sudan and East Africa.
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Overview: Sudan is buffeted by civil war, chronic political instability, adverse weather, high inflation, a drop in remittances from abroad, and counterproductive economic policies.