The River Nile is the major feature of Sudan. Its headwaters, the White Nile and Blue Nile, also flow through the country and meet at Khartoum -- the capital of Sudan.

Cities of Sudan:
 

Atbara -  Dinder - Dongola - El Fasher - Erkowit - Jabal - Marra - Juba - El Junayna - Kafia - Kingi - Karima -  Kassala - Khartoum - Mellit - Meroe - Merowe and Nupi Nile Temples Nuba Mountains Nubian desert Nyala El Obeid - Omdurman - Port Sudan - Shendi - Suakin - Wadi Halfa - Wad Medani.

Khartoum

Khartoum, founded in the early 1820s as an Egyptian military post, is Arabic for elephant's trunk -- a referral to the Nile proper that starts just north of the capital.

Bridges cross the Blue Nile to Khartoum North and the White Nile to Omdurman.

During a revolt against Anglo-Egyptian rule in 1884-1885, the city was besieged for ten months and the entire Anglo-Egyptian garrison was massacred.

Khartoum was recaptured by the British in 1898 and it became the capital of the Anglo- Egyptian Sudan from 1899 to 1956.

Nubia (Northern Sudan)

Ancient Nubia:
The ancient civilisation of northern Sudan existed along with the Egyptian kingdom -- between Aswan and Khartoum. Nubian civilisation had it's own distinct culture.