- capital of Sudan: Khartoum
- dust storms, periodic droughts: natural hazards
- favoring islamic-oriented governments dominate the national politics since 1956: military regines
- generally flat, featureless plain, some mountains, desert dominates: terrain
- on Nile River, main purpose to generate electricity: Merowe Dam
- petroleum, natural gas, gold, silver, chrome, manganese, gypsum, copper, uranium, granite, nickel & tin: mineral resources
- the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction: genocide
- tropical in south, arid in north, rainy season varies by region: climate