Kassala (state)
Kassala | |
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Basic data | |
Capital : | Kassala |
Area : | 36,710 km² |
Residents : | 2,438,800 (calculation 2017) |
Population density : | 66.43 inhabitants per km² |
ISO 3166-2 : |
SD-KA
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politics | |
Governor : | Mohammad Yousuf Adam Bashir |
Kassala ( Arabic كسلا, DMG Kassalā , also Kasala ; from 1991 to 1994 ash-Sharqiyya , Arabic الشرقية"The Eastern") is a federal state in eastern Sudan . The provincial capital Kassala is located near the border with Eritrea on the banks of the Gasch River .
The state has an area of 36,710 km² and, according to a calculation for 2017, around 2.4 million inhabitants.
history
From 1919 to 1956 Kassala was first a province of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan , then a province of the independent Republic of Sudan , and included the present-day states of al-Bahr al-ahmar , al-Qadarif and Kassala as well as part of what is now the state of Nahr an-Nil . In 1973 the province of al-Bahr al-ahmar was split off, which corresponded to the current state of al-Bahr al-ahmar. In 1974 a part of Kassala was split off to form the new Nahr an-Nil Province together with part of the province of ash-Shamaliyya. In 1991 the province was converted into a state and the borders from 1919 to 1973 were restored. Kassala was also renamed ash-Sharqiyya . On February 14, 1994, the states of al-Bahr al-ahmar, al-Qadarif and Sannar were split off and the renaming was reversed. In the north another area was branched off for the new state of Nahr an-Nil.
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 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; 415 kB), Table: T02
- ^ Sudan: States, cities & agglomerations - population figures in maps and tables. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
- ↑ www.statoids.com: Historical overview of the Sudanese states
Web links
- Map 266 Kassala State. State map
Coordinates: 15 ° 45 ' N , 35 ° 43' E