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Republic of the Sudan
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Capital: Khartoum
Total Area: 967,498.65 sq mi,2,505,810.00 sq km,(slightly more than one-quarter the size of the US)
Population: 36,080,373 (July 2001 est.)
Estimated Population in 2050: 84,192,309
Languages: Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
Literacy: 46.1% total, 57.7% male, 34.6% female (1995 est.)
Religions: Sunni Muslim 70% (in north), indigenous beliefs 25%, Christian 5% (mostly in south and Khartoum)
Life Expectancy: 55.85 male, 58.08 female (2001 est.)
Government Type: transitional - ruling military junta took power in 1989; government is dominated by members of Sudan's National Islamic Front (NIF), a fundamentalist political organization, which uses the National Congress Party (NCP) as its legal front
Currency: 1 Sudanese dinar (SD) = 100 piastres
GDP (per capita): $1,000 (2000 est.)
Industry: cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining, pharmaceuticals, armaments
Agriculture: cotton, groundnuts (peanuts), sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sugarcane, cassara, mangos, papaya, bananas, sweet potatoes, sesame; sheep, livestock
Arable Land: 5%
Natural Resources: petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold, hydropower
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