Gharb Kurdufan
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Gharb Kurdufan ( Arabic غرب كردفان Gharb Kurdufan , DMG Ġarb Kurdufān , German: West Kurdufan or Westkordofan ) is a federal state in Sudan .
It has an area of 111,373 km² and around 1.3 million inhabitants (2006 calculation). Its capital is al-Fula . The area's population mainly belongs to the Arabic-speaking ethnic groups of the Misseriya - Baggara (in the south) and the Hamar (in the north).
history
The federal state was formed when the administrative structure of Sudan was reorganized on February 14, 1994, when the state of Kurdufan was divided into the three new states of Dschanub Kurdufan , Shamal Kurdufan and Gharb Kurdufan. As a result of the peace agreement of 2005 , which ended the civil war , the state - which also included the Abyei area, which was disputed between North and South Sudan - was dissolved. Its territory was divided between Shamal Kurdufan and Dschanub Kurdufan. In 2013 Gharb Kurdufan was rebuilt.
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- ^ Sebastian Barzel: Sudan - Places, Cities, Population. (No longer available online.) In: afrika.sebaworld.de. August 1, 2008, archived from the original on September 2, 2018 ; accessed on September 2, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ International Crisis Group: Sudan's Southern Kordofan Problem: The Next Darfur? , 2008
- ↑ www.statoids.com: Historical overview of the Sudanese states
