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Place details
- Locality
- كوستي
- Region
- النيل الأبيض White Nile
- Country
- السودان
- Population
- 345,068
- Timezone
- Africa/Khartoum
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Key facts
- Country
- Sudan
- State
- White Nile
- Elevation
- 1,250 ft (380 m)
- Total
- 345,068
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- Commons category
- Kosti, Sudan
- native label
- كوستي
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Encyclopedic overview
Kosti (also Kusti, Arabic: كوستي) is one of the major cities in Sudan that lies south of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, and stands on the western bank of the White Nile river opposite Rabak, the capital of the White Nile state and is connected to it by a bridge. The city is served by Kosti Railway Station and Rabak Airport. The population of Kosti as of 2012 was estimated at 345,068 people.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kosti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.