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|currency = Sudanese pound (SDG)
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'''Sudan''' (Arabic: السودان , as-Sūdān), officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in [[Northern Africa]]. It was the largest state of Africa before [[South Sudan]] became independent in 2011. It was the largest country on the African continent until the South voted to be independent and, subsequently, broke away from Sudan.
It is bordered by [[Egypt]] to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, [[Eritrea]] and [[Ethiopia]] to the east, [[South Sudan]] to the south, the [[Central African Republic]] to the southwest, [[Chad]] to the west and [[Libya]] to the northwest. The famous river Nile divides the country into eastern and western halves. The majority of the Sudanese people is Islam.
