Sudan map quiz
Explore cities and landmarks of Sudan!
Quizzes in this pack
Sudan: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- The capital at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile, whose merging is visible from the city
- Answer: Khartoum
- Twin city across the Nile from Khartoum, Sudan's largest city by population, site of the 1898 battle against the British
- Answer: Omdurman
- Sudan's main seaport on the Red Sea coast, the country's gateway for international trade and shipping
- Answer: Port Sudan
- Eastern city near the Eritrean border, known for its dramatic Taka granite mountains rising from the plain
- Answer: Kassala
- Largest city in Darfur in western Sudan, a major humanitarian hub during the Darfur conflict
- Answer: Nyala
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Pyramids of Meroë
North-east of Khartoum, by the Nile
Meroë was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, and its kings and queens were buried under more than 200 pyramids in the desert by the Nile. They are smaller and steeper than the pyramids of Egypt.
- Built
- About 300 BC to AD 350
- How many
- Over 200 pyramids
Nile Confluence
Al-Mogran, Khartoum
At al-Mogran in Khartoum, the White Nile, which flows out of Lake Victoria, meets the Blue Nile coming down from Lake Tana in Ethiopia. For a stretch the two run side by side in different colours before they mix into the Nile, which flows on north to Egypt.
- Did you know?
- The Blue Nile is shorter but brings most of the water, and almost all the fertile silt, in the flood season
Jebel Barkal
Near Karima
Jebel Barkal is a flat-topped sandstone hill about 98 metres high by the Nile near Karima. The Egyptians and later the kings of Kush believed the god Amun lived inside it, and a tall pinnacle on its cliff was seen as a rearing cobra, a royal symbol.
- Height
- About 98 m
- Did you know?
- Temples to Amun stood at its foot for more than a thousand years
Suakin
Red Sea coast
Suakin was for centuries the main port on Sudan's Red Sea coast, a town of tall houses built from blocks of coral on a small island. When the British opened Port Sudan nearby in the early 1900s, trade moved there, and the coral houses slowly crumbled.
- Did you know?
- Pilgrims from Africa once sailed from here across the Red Sea to Mecca
Nuri Pyramids
Across the Nile from Jebel Barkal
Nuri, across the Nile from Jebel Barkal, holds more than 20 pyramids, the tombs of kings and queens of Kush. The first and largest belongs to Taharqa, who ruled Egypt as well as Kush around 690–664 BC.
- Did you know?
- Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt
Bayuda Desert
Inside the great bend of the Nile
The Bayuda Desert lies inside the great bend of the Nile in northern Sudan, between Khartoum and Dongola. In its north-east is a field of dark volcanic cones and craters, and nomads graze camels and goats across its gravel plains.
- Did you know?
- In 1885 a British column crossed it on camels to try to rescue General Gordon in Khartoum
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
