Sudan is a country in north-east Africa.
The term Sudan may also refer to the following:
Places
African regions and countries
- Sudan (region), geographic region running across Africa just south of the Sahel
- French Sudan, a former French colony, present-day Mali and other West African countries
- The Sudans
- Turco-Egyptian Sudan (1820–1885)
- Mahdist Sudan (1885–1899)
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899–1956)
- Republic of the Sudan (1956–1969)
- Democratic Republic of the Sudan (1969–1985)
- Republic of Sudan (1985–2019)
- South Sudan, a separate country, which declared independence from Sudan in 2011
- Sudanian Savanna, a belt of tropical savanna across the African continent
Villages
- Sudan, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Sudan, Texas, a small town in Lamb County of West Texas in the United States
- Sudan, Yemen, a village in the San‘a’ Governorate in western central Yemen
- Sudan, Zira, a village in Punjab, India
People
- Madhusudan (disambiguation), the generic Indian name
- Gabriel Sudan, Romanian mathematician
- Madhu Sudan (born 1966), Indian computer scientist
Dyes
Other uses
- Sudan (beverage), a traditional Korean punch
- Sudan (film), a 1945 historical drama
- Sudan (rhinoceros) (1973–2018), a northern white rhinoceros at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya
- Sudan (ship), the PS Sudan, a Nile steamer
- Sudan (tribe), a settled Bedouin tribe of the United Arab Emirates.
- Sudan function, in mathematics, named after Gabriel Sudan
- Sudan grass, a grass
See also
- Soudan (disambiguation)
- SUDAAN, statistical software
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