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Sudanese
Variant of Sudan
- vast semiarid region in NC Africa, south of the Sahara, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
- country in the E part of this region, south of Egypt: formerly a British & Egyptian condominium called Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, it became an independent republic in 1956: 967,500 sq mi (2,505,815 sq km); pop. 20,564,000; cap. Khartoum
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