RIVER NILE, THE LONGEST RIVER IN THE WORLD, PASSES THROUGH THE COUNTRY FROM SOUTH TO NORTH.
RAINS ARE RARE AND OCCASIONAL IN THE NORTH AREA AND RELATIVELY ABUNDANT IN THE MIDDLE, WHILE THEY ARE FREQUENT IN THE SOUTH WHERE THE RAINY SEASONS OF SIX TO NINE MONTHS.
MEAN TEMPERATURES ARE GENERALLY HIGH.
SOCIETY:
POPULATION: ABOUT 30 MILLION.
LANGUAGE: ARABIC IS THE PRIMARY AND OFFICIAL LANGUAGE, BESIDES THERE ARE SOME FEW HUNDREDS LOCAL LANGUAGES. ENGLISH CAN BE CONSIDERED AS SECOND LANGUAGE.
HISTORY:
The Sudan history goes deep into the remote antiquity.. The Nubian kingdom of Kush (or Cush), was one of the most important kingdoms in the ancient times..
In the eighth century BC, Kush reemerged as a superpower in the middle Nile and ruled from Napta by strong kings who gradually extended their power into Egypt.
About 750 BC, the Kushite king Kashta conqured upper Egypt and ruled Thebes. His successor, Painkhy, subdued the Delta and reunited Egypt. He founded a line of strong kings who ruled Kush and Thebes for about a century..
By about 400 BC, the center of the kingdom had been moved to Meroe, where more than 50 pyramids and tombs were built.
Sudan's pyramids and and royal tombs which rise out in the quite desert of Meroe, in a unique atmosphere, are considered as the most valuable relics of Africa.
