The Sudanese community in South Korea:About Sudan

The Sudanese League in South Korea

رابطة الجالية السودانية بجمهورية كوريا

Country profile: Sudan

Name: The Republic of Sudan
Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea
Ranked tenth in the world in area. Largest country in Arab World and Africa.
Natural resources: Huge resources of water, Petroleum; Iron ore, Copper, Chromium ore, Zinc, Tungsten, Mica, Silver, Gold, Hydropower, Uranium, untapped mining potentials also exist.
Sudan is a FEDERAL country divided into 26 states. Khartoum is the capital and Port Sudan is seaport city on the Red Sea.
Languages: Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English.
Industries: oil, cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining, pharmaceuticals, armaments, automobile/light truck assembly.
Economy - overview: Sudan's economy is booming on the back of increases in oil production, high oil prices, and large inflows of foreign direct investment. GDP growth registered more than 10% per year in 2006 and 2007. From 1997 to date, Sudan has been working with the IMF to implement macroeconomic reforms, including a managed float of the exchange rate. Sudan began exporting crude oil in the last quarter of 1999. Agricultural production remains important, because it employs 80% of the work force and contributes a third of GDP.
Exports - commodities: oil and petroleum products; cotton, sesame, livestock, groundnuts, gum Arabic, sugar
Currency: The Sudanese Pound, Exchange rate of $1.00 equals 2 Sudanese Pounds.
Currency (code): Sudanese pounds (SDG)
GDP (purchasing power parity): $107.8 billion (2007 EST.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $49.71 billion (2007 EST.)
GDP - real growth rate: 12.8% (2007 EST.)
Oil - production: Sudan produces 500,000 bbl/day
Sudan contained proven oil reserves of five billion barrels as of January 2007.
Sudan received an invitation to join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) from Nigeria, the rotating chairman of OPEC in 2006.
Internet country code: .SD

Wild life in Sudan:

v Sudan is probably the country in the world with the greatest variety of big mammals living on land.

v Sudan has the largest natural ZOO in the world.

Sudan is the biggest producer Use of Gum Arabic in food and medicine.
Sudan enjoys 134.19 million hectares of agriculture land and 117.18 million hectares of pasture and grazing areas for 130 millions of animal population

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Sudan qualified to provide food for the world

Sudan History: A Very Long and Rich history

Archaeological evidence indicates for at least 30,000 years

Sudan's history between 4000 BCE and 500 CE is Nubia Kingdom.

4th century: The kingdom of Kush.

6th century: Makuria (or Maqurra).

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Sudan also enjoys a long costal line at the Red Sea.

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