Map of Sudan

Sudan is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 15.0° N, 30.0° E. It shares land borders with 7 countries — Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya and South Sudan — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Sudan is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Sudan shares land frontiers with the following 7 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Sudan covers about 1,886,068 km² (728,215 sq mi). That makes it the 15th-largest country in the world by area and the 3rd-largest in Africa, larger by area than 51 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 51,662,000, the 28th-largest in the world and the 8th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 3.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Sudan has an average population density of about 27 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 8th by population and 3rd by area.

The seat of government is Khartoum, and the official currency is the Sudanese pound (SDG, ج.س), and the main official languages are Arabic and English. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Sudan carries the ISO country codes SD and SDN, dials on the international calling code +249 and uses the .sd internet domain.

Sudan shares its land borders with 7 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Ethiopia (capital Addis Ababa, about 111,652,998 people), Egypt (capital Cairo, about 107,271,260 people), Chad (capital N'Djamena, about 19,340,757 people), South Sudan (capital Juba, about 15,786,898 people), Libya (capital Tripoli, about 7,459,000 people), Central African Republic (capital Bangui, about 6,470,307 people) and Eritrea (capital Asmara, about 3,607,000 people).

By area, Sudan is larger than 7 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 15.0° N, 30.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Sudan within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Khartoum. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Sudan lies about 1,665 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Sudan keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Sudanese pound (SDG, ج.س).

The official languages are Arabic and English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +249 and websites commonly use the .sd internet domain.

In short, Sudan is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 7 countries. Its capital is Khartoum. Sudan has a population of about 51,662,000 and covers around 1,886,068 km² (728,215 sq mi), ranking it 28th in the world by population and 15th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Sudan.

The flag of Sudan is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and black, with a green isosceles triangle superimposed on the hoist side. The green triangle spans about two-fifth the width of the field with its base on the hoist end.

The flag of Sudan is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.