REPUBLIC OF THE SUDAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Republic of the Sudan mean? 

• REPUBLIC OF THE SUDAN (noun)
  The noun REPUBLIC OF THE SUDAN has 1 sense:

1. a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956

  Familiarity information: REPUBLIC OF THE SUDAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLIC OF THE SUDAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of the Sudan; Soudan; Sudan

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Republic of the Sudan"):

Darfur (an impoverished region of western Sudan)

Kordofan (a mountainous province of central Sudan)

capital of Sudan; Khartoum (the capital of Sudan located at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile)

Nyala (city in Sudan)

Port Sudan (port city in Sudan on the Red Sea)

Omdurman (a city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White Nile opposite Khartoum)

Libyan Desert (the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan)

Nubian Desert (an arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea)

Nile; Nile River (the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization)

Meronyms (members of "Republic of the Sudan"):

Sudanese (a native or inhabitant of Sudan)

Holonyms ("Republic of the Sudan" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Holonyms ("Republic of the Sudan" is a member of...):

Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)