ash-Shamaliyya

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ash-Shamaliyya
Libyen Zentralafrikanische Republik Tschad Ägypten de-facto Ägypten - vom Sudan beansprucht de-facto Ägypten - weder von Sudan noch von Ägypten beansprucht Südsudan Eritrea Äthiopien de-facto Sudan (vom Sudan als Teil von Dschanub Kurdufan beansprucht - vom Südsudan beansprucht) Gharb Darfur Dschanub Darfur Dschanub Kurdufan An-Nil al-azraq Sannar (Bundesstaat) Al-Dschazira (Bundesstaat) Al-Qadarif (Bundesstaat) An-Nil al-abyad Al-Chartum Kassala Nahr an-Nil al-Bahr al-ahmar Schamal Kurdufan Asch-Schamaliyya Schamal Darfur Wasat Darfur Scharq DarfurNorthern in Sudan.svg
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Basic data
Capital : Dunqula
Area : 348,765 km²
Residents : 913,500 (calculation 2017)
Population density : 2.6 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 : SD-NO

politics
Governor : Fathe Khalil

ash-Shamaliyya ( Arabic الشمالية asch-Schamāliyya , German  "Die Nördliche" , English Northern ) is a federal state in Sudan . Its capital is Dunqula .

geography

Palm trees in Ash-Shamaliyya

Asch-Schamaliyya has an area of ​​348,765 km² and is dominated by the Sahara and the Nubian Desert, with the exception of a fertile strip of cultivated land on the banks of the Nile . In the north you can find the city of Wadi Halfa and Lake Nubia , which forms the Sudanese part of Lake Nasser . Other localities are Karima , Kurti , Kulb and Abri .

population

According to an estimate from 2017, the state has around 913,000 inhabitants. They mainly speak Arabic or Nubian .

history

From 1919 to 1974 ash-Shamaliyya was first a province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan , then a province of the independent Republic of Sudan . In 1974 part of Ash-Shamaliyya was split off to form the new Nahr an-Nil Province together with part of Kassala Province . In 1991 the province was converted into a state and the borders from 1919 to 1974 were restored. On February 14, 1994 a part of ash-Shamaliyya was split off again to create a state of Nahr an-Nil with part of the state of ash-Sharqiyya (Kassala).

Infrastructure

From Wadi Halfa there is a railway connection to Khartoum to the south and a ferry connection to Egypt to the north .

swell

  1. ^ Sudan: States, cities & agglomerations - population figures in maps and tables. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Central Bureau of Statistics / Southern Sudan Center for Census Statistics and Evaluation: 5th Sudan Population and Housing Census - 2008 ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 425 kB), Table: T02 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / southsudaninfo.net
  3. ↑ www.statoids.com: Historical overview of the Sudanese states