Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in the Nile Valley of North Africa, bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, to the east, South Sudan to the south.
Capital: Khartoum Dialling code: +249 President: Omar al-Bashir Currency: Sudanese pound Population: 37.96 million (2013) World Bank Official languages: Arabic, English