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Key facts
- Country
- Sudan
- Region
- Blue Nile Province
- Capital
- Ad-Damazin
- Governor
- Ahmed al-Omda
- Total
- 45,844 km (17,700 sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( CAT )
- Hdi 2017
- 0.416 , low
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Encyclopedic overview
Blue Nile State (Arabic: ولاية النيل الأزرق Wilāyat an-Nīl al-ʾAzraq) is one of the 18 states of the Republic of the Sudan. Established by Presidential Decree No. 3 in 1992, it is named after the Blue Nile River. The region is host to around forty different ethnic groups. Its economic activity is based on agriculture and livestock as well as mineral exploitation. It borders Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the west, and Sennar to the north.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blue Nile State” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.