Northern (state)
Ash- Schamaliyya (Arabic الشمالية ash- Schamāliyya, German " The Northern ", English Northern) is a state in Sudan. Its capital is Dongola.
Geography
Ash- Schamaliyya has an area of 348,765 km ² and is mainly dominated by the Sahara and the Nubian Desert, except for a strip of fertile farmland on the banks of the Nile. In the north is the town of Wadi Halfa and the Nubia Lake, which forms the Sudanese part of Lake Nasser. Other towns are Karima, Kurti, Kulb and Abri.
Population
The state has, according to the census of 2008, approximately 700,000 inhabitants. This talk mainly Arabic and Nubian.
History
From 1919 to 1974 al- Schamaliyya was only a province of the Anglo -Egyptian Sudan, then a province of the independent Republic of Sudan. 1974 a part of al- Schamaliyya was cleaved together with a part of the province of Kassala to form the new province of Nahr Nile. In 1991, the province was transformed into a federal state and the limits of 1919 to 1974 were restored. On 14 February 1994, a part of al- Schamaliyya was cleaved to create a part of the state al- Sharqiyah ( Kassala ) again a state of Nahr an - Nil again.
Infrastructure
From Wadi Halfa from there to south rail link to Khartoum and to the north a ferry to Egypt.
Swell
Al -Bahr al - ahmar | al - Khartoum | Al- Jazeera | Al- Qadarif | at Nile al - Abyad | at Nile al - azraq | ash- Schamaliyya | Dschanub Darfur | Dschanub Kordofan | West Darfur | Kassala | Nahr an Nile | Sennar | Schamal Darfur | Schamal Kordofan | Sharq Darfur | Darfur Wasat
- State (Sudan)
- Ash- Schamaliyya