Official Name: | Tokar |
Pushpin Map: | Sudan |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Sudan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Sudan |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Red Sea |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2008 |
Population Total: | 37,051 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 18.4253°N 37.7292°W |
Elevation M: | 20 |
Tokar (Arabic: طوكر), also transliterated Tawkar, is a town of 40,000 people near the Red Sea in northeastern Sudan. Tokar Game Reserve lies to the east of the town.
The town lies in the delta of the Baraka River. Since the 1860s cotton has been grown in the delta.[2]
The high temperature mean daily value, in the month of July, can reach 431NaN1, the low temperature mean daily value does not go under 281NaN1. In January the high temperature mean daily value is 281NaN1 and the low temperature mean daily value is 20°C. The only rain in Tokar falls in the months of November, December, January and August. In the whole world only 48 locations are warmer than Tokar, and 166 are dryer.[3]