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___ Satellite View and Map of the City of Port Sudan (بورتسودان‎), Sudan

Searchable Map and Satellite View of Port Sudan using Google Earth Data

Satellite view is showing Port Sudan, the chief port of Sudan. The capital of Sudan's Red Sea State is located on the Red Sea in north east of the country.

Port Sudan has a population of estimated half a million people.
Spoken languages are predominantly Arabic and English.

The city was founded by the British in 1909 as the terminus of a rail linking the Red Sea to the River Nile. The new port replaced Suakin as Sudan's chief port. The railroad was used to transport cotton, sesame seed, and sorghum, from the agriculturally rich areas of the Nile valley to markets.

Muslim pilgrims traveling to and from Mecca in Saudi Arabia, use Port Sudan as a departure point to cross the Red Sea to Jeddah.

The map shows a city map of Port Sudan with motorways, main roads and streets, zoom out to see the location of Port Sudan New International Airport (IATA code: PZU), about 20 km (12 mi) south of the city.


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Harbor of Port Sudan
Port Sudan harbor.
Image: Bertramz

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Local Time Sudan:
Wednsday-May-23  11:03
Eastern Africa Time (EAT): UTC/GMT +3 hours
Google Maps: Searchable map/satellite view of Port Sudan, Republic of the Sudan.
 
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More about Sudan:

Cities:
Searchable map/satellite view of Khartoum (capital city)

Searchable map/satellite view of Abyei
Searchable map/satellite view of Juba
(capital city of South Sudan)


Country:
Searchable map/satellite view of Sudan
Political Map of Sudan
Administrative Map of Sudan

Sudan Country Profile
Continent:

Map of Northern Africa and the Middle East
Map of Africa


External Links
Wikipedia: Port Sudan
 
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