Tokar (), also transliterated Tawkar, is a town of 40,000 people near the

Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...

in northeastern

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 ...

. Tokar Game Reserve lies to the east of the town. The town lies in the delta of the Baraka River. Since the 1860s cotton has been grown in the delta.

Climate

The high temperature mean daily value, in the month of July, can reach , the low temperature mean daily value does not go under . In January the high temperature mean daily value is and the low temperature mean daily value is . The only rain in Tokar falls in the months of November, December, January and August. In the whole world only 48 locations are warmer than Tokar, and 166 are dryer.

References

Populated places in Red Sea State {{Sudan-geo-stub