Sudan (region)

Sudan
بِلَادُ السُّوْدَان
An open hay landscape in the northern Gambia
Ecology
BordersSahara
Geography
RiversChari, Niger, and the White Nile

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 bilād as-sūdān (بلاد السودان) and arḍ as-sūdān (أَرْض السودان), both meaning "the lands of the Black [Africans]", referring to West Africa and northern Central Africa.[1]

East Sudanian savanna
  1. ^ International Association for the History of Religions (1959), Numen, Leiden: EJ Brill, p. 131, 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.