{"id":8569,"date":"2025-09-05T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:44:47","slug":"key-facts-about-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Sudan Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a landslide buried a remote mountain village in the Darfur region of Sudan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sudan<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the third largest country in <\/span><b>Africa.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bordering Countries: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Libya, Chad, and Central African Republic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It borders the <\/span><b>Sahara on the north<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and extends southward to the forests of West Africa and the Congo River basin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also has a significant coastline <\/span><b>along the Red Sea.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Relief:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is mainly composed of vast <\/span><b>plains and plateaus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that are drained by the <\/span><b>Nile River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and its tributaries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much of Sudan consists of deserts and arid grasslands with little in the way of vegetation. Massive plains and plateaus cover most of the nation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest point:<\/b> <b>Jabal Marrah<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural Resources<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold; hydropower<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City:<\/b> <b>Khartoum,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is located roughly in the centre of the country, at the junction of the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/sudan-recovers-100-bodies-after-darfur-landslide-rebel-group\/article70007862.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan is a country located in northeastern Africa. Read more about Key Facts about Sudan, Location, Bordering Countries, Capital, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":62123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,2523,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-8569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-sudan","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}