Top 10 Interesting Facts About Sudan
Welcome to Countries Facts so today I'm going to be sharing some interesting facts about Sudan case you guys don't know by now I am 100% Sudanese here's the thing like Sudan is not really talked about in the media a lot of people don't really know a lot about Sudan from Africans Americans Asians like just want to talk to different people in general it's so funny what they have to say about Sudan so anyways I thought I just make this video to share some facts about my country so that a little bit more so then is actually split into two countries now there's Sudan and then there's South Sudan so then just split recently in July of 2011 I'm still kind of in denial I don't want to accept that or two different countries now before Sudan split.
1 Sudan is actually the largest country in Africa and it was actually the tenth largest country in the world so is a pretty big country before it split primarily in Sudan the people there are Muslim and then in South Sudan.
2 South Sudan the people there are Christians the name of the country Sudan derived from balada Sudan which is Arabic which actually means land of the blacks or basically land of the black people the official languages of Sudan.
3 Sudan are Arabic and English a lot of people are always surprised to hear that they're like what English so then actually is a lot of tribes and they still exist until today so shout out to all my the Nakhla people out there we have like Dena Gua you have jolly you have shaggy guy I know in the South you have zdenka I feel like there's so much more but I don't I don't even know there's too many the Independence Day of Sudan.
4 Sudan is January 1st 1956 also happens to be my mother's birthday they were actually gonna name her Easter dad which means independence in Sudan.
5 Sudan because she was born the day of Sudan's independence there is actually nine countries that border Sudan I still don't even have them all memorized because it's just too much but let me see if I can do it so you have Egypt Algeria Kenya Eritrea Ethiopia Uganda that's six Chad.
6 The Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic so those are the three awesomest Egypt has somehow claimed the title of the Nile River one that's so not true like the now river runs in a lot of different countries in Northeast Africa and actually when you look at the map the majority of the Nile River.
7 Nile River is in Sudan there's actually a lot of ancient pyramids and ruins in - then matter of fact we have even more in number than Egypt - does we have even more in number than Egypt is does we have even more number than Egypt does Egypt has more older ones but in quantity Sudan has more you don't ever hear about Sudan.
Sudan's pyramids but you always hear about Egypt's pyramids this is no hate on Egypt I know a lot of Egyptian people.
8 Egyptian people and they're super cool they're always so nice so the next thing is really cool so that actually has one of the first and most active women's movement in Africa during like the nineteen sixties seventies so then had the first female parliamentarian it also had the first female Minister of Health and the first female judge cinematographer football referee army and police officer good job sedan this is the Sudan flag.
9 Sudan Flag this is what it looks like it's green red white and black and each of these colors actually has a meaning the red stands for Sudan struggle for independence the blood that was shed during that time to get independence and a lot of other sacrifices and struggles.
10 The country went through the why is the opposite and it basically stands for peace the black stands for the color of the people in the name which is a student land of the black people and the black is for the people obviously I just said that and then the green actually represents them and it also represents agriculture so yeah that is my flag love use today so anyways that was it for this Article.
Hopefully you guys found that interesting and learned a thing or two about me and Sudan and I will see you in the next Article.
