Ch. 20- Section 4- Sudan

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Ch. 20- Section 4- Sudan

• Largest country- Africa
• 1 million square miles
• 1/3- size- US- minus Hawaii and Alaska

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Sudan continued

• N- Deserts
• Central- grassy plains
• Blue Nile and White Nile meet
• Fertile soil
• S- rain forests and swamps
• Crops- cotton- irrigation- waters- Nile R.
• Since 1956- civil war between north and south
• 1990s- drought hit- extended dry
  period-conditions got worse