Sudan

• Area: 1,861,484 sq. km (718,723 sq. mi.)
• Population: 36,729,501 (2016 est.)
• Population growth rate: 1.69% (2016 est.)
• Life expectancy: 64.1 years (2016)
• Languages: Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Fur
• Religions: Sunni Muslim, small Christian minority
• Formal name: Republic of the Sudan
• Alternate names: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, As Sūdān, Es Sūdān el Inglīzi el Masri, Jamhuryat el-Sudan, Jumhūrīyat as Sūdan, Jumhūrīyat as Sūdān ad Dīmuqrāţīyah, Republic of the Sudan, Soudan
• Government type: presidential republic
• Leaders: chief of state and head of government: President Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR
• Capital: Khartoum
• Administrative divisions: 18 states
• GDP per capita (PPP): $4,300 (2015 est.)
• Exports: gold; oil and petroleum products; cotton, sesame, livestock, peanuts, gum Arabic, sugar
• Imports: foodstuffs, manufactured goods, refinery and transport equipment, medicines, chemicals, textiles, wheat
• Currency: Sudanese pound (SDG)

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