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Key facts
- Country
- Sudan
- Region
- Darfur
- Capital
- Al-Fashir
- Governor
- Al-Hafiz Bakhit Mohammed (acting)
- Total
- 296,420 km (114,450 sq mi)
- Density
- 5.34/km (13.8/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( CAT )
- Iso 3166 code
- SD-DN
- Hdi 2017
- 0.491 , low
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Encyclopedic overview
North Darfur State (Arabic: ولاية شمال دارفور Wilāyat Šamāl Dārfūr; Shamal Darfor) is one of the wilayat or states of Sudan. It is one of the five states composing the Darfur region. It borders Libya to the northwest, Chad and West Darfur to the west, the rest of the darfurs to the south, West Kordofan and North Kordofan to the east, and Northern to the northeast. It has an area of 296,420 km and an estimated population of approximately 2,304,950 in 2018. Al-Fashir is the capital of the state. Other significant towns include Ailliet, Kebkabiya, Kutum, Mellit (Malit), Tawila, Saraf Omra and Umm Keddada (Umm Kadadah).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “North Darfur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.