Khartoum

Khartoum الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm
Khartoum at nicht
Eik-name(s): The Triangular Ceety
Khartoum Khartoum's location in Sudan
Coordinates: 15°38′N 032°32′E
Kintra	Sudan
State	Khartoum
Govrenment
- Govrenor	Abdul Rahman Alkhidir
Indwallers (2008)
- Urban	639,598
- Metro	5,274,321 (Khartoum State)

Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm) is the caipital o Sudan an o Khartoum State. It is locatit at the confluence o the White Nile flowin north frae Lake Victoria, an the Blue Nile flowin wast frae Ethiopie. The location whaur the twa Niles meet is kent as "al-Mogran". The main Nile continues tae flow north towards Egyp an the Mediterranean Sea.

Dividit bi the Niles, Khartoum is a tripartite metropolis wi an estimatit oweraw population o ower a million fowk consistin o Khartoum proper, an linkt bi briges tae Khartoum North cawed (al-Khartūm Bahrī) an Omdurman (Umm Durmān) tae the wast.

Etymology

The wird 'Khartoum' is derived frae Arabic Al-Jartūm الجرطوم meanin "end o an elephant’s trunk", probably referrin tae the narrae strip o land extendin atween the Blue an White Niles. Captain J. A. Grant, who reached Khartoum in 1863 wi Captain Speke’s expedition, thought that the derivation wis maist probably frae the safflower (Carthamus Tinctorius L.) which is cawed 'Gartoon,' an which wis cultivatit extensively in Egyp for its oil, uised in burnin.

Twin ceeties

• Amman, Jordan
• Cairo, Egyp
• Istanbul, Turkey
• Ankara, Turkey
• Saunt Petersburg, Roushie
• Wuhan, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
• Asmara, Eritrea
• Addis Ababa, Ethiopie
• Omdurman, Sudan
• Hargeisa, Somaliland

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