• 15 states

Blank Map of Sudan

Sudan as a plain outline with the Nile, or with its state borders.

Blank Map of Sudan

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Write the name of each numbered state.Answer key

  1. Al Qadarif
  2. Blue Nile
  3. Central Darfur
  4. East Darfur
  5. Gezira
  6. Kassala
  7. Khartoum
  8. North Darfur
  9. Northern
  10. Red Sea
  11. River Nile
  12. Sennar
  13. South Darfur
  14. West Darfur
  15. White Nile

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each state is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a state is answered.

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  1. Al Qadarif
  2. Blue Nile
  3. Central Darfur
  4. East Darfur
  5. Gezira
  6. Kassala
  7. Khartoum
  8. North Darfur
  9. Northern
  10. Red Sea
  11. River Nile
  12. Sennar
  13. South Darfur
  14. West Darfur
  15. White Nile

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01; ids, points and accepted spellings are as the points file records them, except that two names the map source lists for Sennar (Central; Al Wusţá, Al Awsat), which neither list read today gives for the state, are not taken as answers. NOT TODAY'S FULL LIST: the map source draws 17 states and Sudan has 18. The count and every name were compared on 2026-10-01 with the list of ISO 3166-2 codes for Sudan as Wikipedia prints it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:SD, 18 states; SD-GK West Kordofan added in 2015) and with Wikipedia's list of states (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Sudan: 18 states, two created in Darfur in 2012 and one in Kordofan in 2013). Fifteen shapes carry today's names and are asked; the North Kordofan and South Kordofan shapes are those of before West Kordofan was restored, are labeled as such and are never asked or numbered. The Nile, the White Nile, the Blue Nile and the Atbara are a sheet layer nobody taps. The outline follows the map source: the Hala'ib Triangle is drawn with Egypt, Bir Tawil inside the Red Sea state, and the Abyei Area and Heglig inside the old South Kordofan shape and Kafia Kingi inside South Darfur. The neighbors and the capital named in the page copy are from the lead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan, read the same day. Read again on 2026-10-03: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Sudan (18 states), the leads of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kordofan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halaib_Triangle and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyei. The outline was compared on 2026-10-03 with the Natural Earth 1:10m file the drawing names (the cached download of 2026-09-19): the two cover the same area. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Layers that cannot be tapped from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centered on 14.8°N 30.9°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of Sudan opens on the outline of the country with the Nile and its branches. Switch Borders on for the states as the map source draws them, without West Kordofan, a state again since 2013.

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Outline and rivers first

The sheet opens with the Nile, the White Nile, the Blue Nile and the Atbara and nothing else inside the outline.

Why 15 shapes have numbers

The borders are those of 17 states. Fifteen are drawn as they are today, and Numbered and Named label those. West Kordofan was restored in 2013 from land of North Kordofan and South Kordofan, so those two shapes stay unlabeled.

  • The White Nile and the Blue Nile meet at Khartoum, the capital. Have students mark where the two lines join.

Questions and answers

How many states does Sudan have?

Eighteen: five in Darfur, three in Kordofan and ten more. The map source does not draw West Kordofan, restored in 2013, so this map numbers 15 states and leaves the two older Kordofan shapes unlabeled.

Is the Nile on the blank map of Sudan?

Yes. The White Nile and the Blue Nile are drawn as lines that join at Khartoum, and the Nile runs north from there to Egypt, with the Atbara joining it on the way. Switch Rivers off for an outline with no rivers.

Which countries border Sudan?

Egypt to the north, Libya to the northwest, Chad to the west, the Central African Republic to the southwest, South Sudan to the south, and Ethiopia and Eritrea to the southeast. The Red Sea is to the east.

Are Sudan’s borders disputed?

Some borders on this map are disputed. The map follows Natural Earth, a public-domain map source, and does not take a side. It draws the Halaib Triangle on the Red Sea coast with Egypt, and the Abyei Area on the southern border with Sudan.

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