Sennar ( ') is one of the 18
wilayat
A wilayah ( ar, وَلاية, wālāya or ''wilāya'', plural ; Urdu and fa, ولایت, ''velâyat''; tr, vilayet) is an administrative division, usually translated as "state", "province" or occasionally as "governorate". The word comes fr ...
or states of
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic ...
. It has an area of 37,844 km² and a population of approximately 1,100,000 (2000).
Location
Sinar State is delimited by Al-Gazira State in the north, The Blue Nile State in the south, Al-Gedaref State and the Sudanese Ethiopian borders in the east, and the White Nile State & the Upper Nile State of South Sudan in the west. It remains unknown whether Singa is the capital of Sennar State or whether the largest city
Sennar (also known as Mukwar) is the capital, as some sources and maps list Singa and some list Sennar city. Other commercial towns include El-Suki and El-Dinder.
Population and livelihood
left, 200px, Farming in Sennar
The main economic activity is agriculture, with the irrigated scheme of Suki, the sugar factory of Sennar, and a number of fruit growers (including bananas and mangoes) located on the banks of the
Blue Nile
The Blue Nile (; ) is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It travels for approximately through Ethiopia and Sudan. Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the water t ...
. In terms of education The University Of Sennar is the only higher education university throughout all the state, attended by all its residents.
Main cities
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Singa (one of the 2 possible capitals)
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Sennar (the other possible capital)
* El Suki
* Dindir
* Aldali & Almazmom
* East Sinnar
* Abohugar
Tourism
The state is famous for its
Dinder National Park
Dinder National Park is a national park and biosphere reserve in eastern Sudan, and is connected to Ethiopia's Alitash National Park.
Location
Dinder lies approximately southeast of Khartoum, on either side of the Dinder River bounded to the nor ...
.
See also
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Wad al-'Abbas Wad al-'Abbas is one of the oldest cities in the province of Sinār, Sudan. It was founded by Sheik Muhammad 'Alī 'Abbās, who came from the district of Wahīb in Northern, Sudan, where he was a learned and devout man. He founded a centre for ...
References
States of Sudan
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