Sudan (disambiguation) explained

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

• Sudan I
• Sudan II
• Sudan III
• Sudan IV
• Sudan Black B
• Sudan Red G

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