Sudan

Facts

What the numbers say about Sudan

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 9.15× the size of Sudan.
• At 22 people per km², Sudan is the 146th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Sudan lies at 16°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Sudan's main territory stretches about 1,500 km north to south and 1,800 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,878,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,856,000 km², to within 2%.

How Sudan measures up

Sudan holds 6.2% of the land area and 2.9% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Northern Africa it is the 2nd largest of 7.

Where Sudan sits

• Sudan's centre lies at 16.0°N, 29.9°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,770 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 9°N to 22°N, about 1,510 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Sudan had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Sudan would have 2.32 billion people. It has 40.5 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Sudan would have 6.9 million people. It has 40.5 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 134.3 million.

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