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{{Short description|Geographical region to the south of the Sahara}}

{{About|the geographical region to the south of the Sahara|the geopolitical region in North-easternNortheast Africa|the Sudans|the two neighboring countries in North-easternNortheast Africa|North Sudan|and|South Sudan}}

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'''Sudan''' is the geographical region to the south of the [[Sahara]], stretching from Western Africa to Central and Eastern Africa. The name derives from the [[Arabic]] ''{{transliteration|ar|bilād as-sūdān}}'' ({{lang|ar|{{Script|Arab|بلاد السودان}}}}) and ''{{transliteration|ar|arḍ as-sūdān}}'' ({{lang|ar|{{Script|Arab|أَرْض السودان}}}}), orboth meaning "the lands of the [[Black Africans|Black [Africans]]]", referring to [[West Africa]] and northern [[Central Africa]].<ref>{{citation | author = International Association for the History of Religions | title = Numen | publisher = EJ Brill | place = Leiden | year = 1959 | page = 131 | quote = West Africa may be taken as the country stretching from Senegal in the west, to the Cameroons in the east; sometimes it has been called the central and western Sudan, the ''Bilad as-Sūdan'', 'Land of the Blacks', of the Arabs}}.</ref>

[[File:AT0705 map.png|thumb|[[East Sudanian savanna]]]]