Soudan may refer to:
* The French name (and former English name) for the country of
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...
* The French name for
French Sudan
French Sudan (; ') was a French colonial territory in the Federation of French West Africa from around 1880 until 1959, when it joined the Mali Federation, and then in 1960, when it became the independent state of Mali. The colony was formall ...
(present-day
Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...
)
* Archaic spelling for the
region of Sudan
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Soudan, Minnesota, an unincorporated town near
Tower
A tower is a tall Nonbuilding structure, structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from guyed mast, masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting ...
, Minnesota, US
** The
Soudan Mine
The Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park is a Minnesota state park at the site of the Soudan Underground Mine, on the south shore of Lake Vermilion, in the Vermilion Range (Minnesota). The mine is known as Minnesota's oldest, dee ...
, a former iron mine, now part of a state park
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Soudan 1
Soudan 1 was a particle detector located in the Soudan Mine in Northern Minnesota, United States, which operated for a year in 1981–82. It was a 30-ton tracking calorimeter whose primary purpose was to search for proton decay. It set a lower li ...
and
Soudan 2
Soudan 2 was a particle detector located in the Soudan Mine in Northern Minnesota, United States, that operated from 1989 to 2001. It was a 960-ton iron tracking calorimeter whose primary purpose was to search for proton decay, although its data ...
, particle detectors located in the Soudan Mine
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Soudan Banks
The Soudan Banks are a series of underwater high points and reefs off the coast of Africa, known for their good fishing yields as fishing banks. They are administered by Mauritius. The five banks (actually a single feature) lie on the Mascarene Pla ...
, a group of reefs in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa
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Fereej Al Soudan, a district in Qatar
;Communes in France
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Soudan, Loire-Atlantique
Soudan (; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
The river Verzée rises in the north-western part of the commune, then flows eastward through its northern part; the river Chère rises in the southern part of th ...
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Soudan, Deux-Sèvres
;Surname
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Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Congolese journalist and politician
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Eugène Soudan (1880–1960), Belgian jurist and politician
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Mohamed Soudan
Mohamed Soudan (born 1956) is an Egyptian politician who is a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood Organization and its now defunct political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt), Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). He was foreign relatio ...
(born 1956), senior member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
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Tim Soudan (born 1968), lacrosse coach and former player
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