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Largest Cities: (by population) Khartoum, Omdurman, Port Sudan, Kassala; Name: Sudan translates to "Land of the Blacks" from the Arabic Bilad as-Sudan.
Indiana University Press, 2009. Local buses and taxis meet most bus arrivals. 1465 15 Souq ash-Sha'abi is Kassala's bus station, just off the main Khartoum-Port Sudan highway and quite a distance from the centre of town. endstream endobj 1478 0 obj <>/Size 1465/Type/XRef>>stream Kassala has grown by 28,955 since 2015, which represents a 1.67% annual change. Page, 87Winston Churchill, The River War, Longman 1899 vol.1 pp.354-6 2022 380,000 0000003017 00000 n KASSALA 96,327 1Total number of South Sudanese refugees includes UNHCR/COR registered refugees, Immigration Passport Police (IPP) registered figures and unregistered population. Its 2008 population was recorded to be 419,030. 0000002687 00000 n
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Kassala (Arabic: كسلا, called Ash Sharqiyah during 1991—1994) is one of the 18 wilayat (states) of Sudan. 0000001394 00000 n It continues to host refugees from Eritrea, Syria, Yemen, Chad and other countries.