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Sud-Bandama
Sud-Bandama, former region of Côte d'Ivoire with capital Divo, one of 19 first-level regions until the 28 September 2011 reorganization into 14 districts; departments Divo, Lakota, Guitry; territory now mainly Lôh-Djiboua region; cocoa and palm producing.
Sud-Comoé
Sud-Comoé is a region of Côte d'Ivoire in the country's southeast, bordering Ghana and the Atlantic Ocean, with its capital at Aboisso and a 2021 population of about 785,000.
Sud-Est
Sud-Est (Sidès) is a department of Haiti created in 1971, capital Jacmel, population 749,803 on 2,034.10 km²; mountainous, rural, famed for Jacmel's carnival, crafts, and UNESCO Creative City status.
Sud-Ouest Region
Sud-Ouest Region (South West Region) names first-level regions in Cameroon (capital Buea, anglophone, 24,571 km²) and Burkina Faso (capital Gaoua, 16,576 km²); a former Ivorian Sud-Ouest region is now Bas-Sassandra.
Suda
The Suda (Σοῦδα), also transmitted as Suida, is a Byzantine Greek lexicon and encyclopedia of about 30,000 entries, compiled in Constantinople in the late tenth century.
Sudafed
Sudafed is a Kenvue brand of decongestants whose original products contain pseudoephedrine, sold behind US pharmacy counters under the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005; Sudafed PE contains phenylephrine, judged ineffective orally by FDA advisers in 2023.
Sudairi Seven
The Sudairi Seven are the seven full sons of Saudi founder King Abdulaziz and Hassa bint Ahmad al-Sudairi: Fahd, Sultan, Nayef, Abdulrahman, Turki, Salman, and Ahmad, the dominant princely faction supplying kings Fahd and Salman.
Sudama (सुदामा)
Sudama, known in South India as Kuchela, is the poor Brahmin friend of Krishna whose visit to Krishna's capital Dvaraka, told in the Bhagavata Purana, ends in wealth.
Sudama Charit
Sudama Charit (सुदामा-चरित) is a 16th-century Braj-language narrative poem by the Hindi poet Narottama Dasa, retelling the impoverished Brahmin Sudama's visit to Krishna at Dwarka.
Sudama Prasad
Sudama Prasad is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, elected to the Lok Sabha from Arrah, Bihar, in 2024, the party's first MP in 35 years.
Sūdan
Sūdan (सूदन) was a court poet of Maharaja Suraj Mal of Bharatpur who wrote the Sujan Charit, a heroic verse chronicle of wars from 1745 to 1753.
Sudan (rhinoceros)
Sudan (1973–2018) was the last male northern white rhinoceros, born in Sudan, kept at Dvůr Králové Zoo then Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, sire of Najin and Fatu, euthanized 19 March 2018 at 45.
Sudan (السودان)
Sudan (السودان), Northeast African country with capital Khartoum, third-largest in Africa at 1,886,068 km². Independent 1956; South Sudan seceded 2011; since April 2023 the SAF–RSF war has caused the world's largest humanitarian crisis, famine risk, and mass displacement.
Sudan Gurung (सुदन गुरुङ)
Sudan Gurung (सुदन गुरुङ, also सुधन गुरुङ), born 1987, is Nepal's Home Minister under PM Balendra Shah, a Rastriya Swatantra Party MP from Gorkha-1, Hami Nepal founder and Gen Z movement figure who resigned in April 2026 and returned in June 2026.
Sudan I
Sudan I, also called Solvent Yellow 14, is a synthetic orange-red azo dye used to color plastics, textiles, and waxes, and banned as a food colorant.
Sudan IV
Sudan IV, also known as Solvent Red 24 or Scarlet red, is a fat-soluble disazo dye used chiefly as a histological stain for triglycerides in frozen tissue sections.
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), also SPLM/A-IO: South Sudanese political movement and former rebellion led by Riek Machar, split from the SPLM in December 2013, signatory of the 2018 R-ARCSS, in crisis after Machar's 2025 arrest.
Sudan virus disease
Sudan virus disease (SVD), also called Sudan ebolavirus disease, is a severe hemorrhagic fever caused by Orthoebolavirus sudanense, first identified in Sudan in 1976, with repeated Uganda outbreaks, 41-70% case fatality, and no licensed vaccine or treatment.
Sudan–Uganda relations
Sudan–Uganda relations are the bilateral ties between Sudan and Uganda, which armed each other's rebels from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s before restoring diplomacy and cooperating against the LRA.
Sudanese Arabic
Sudanese Arabic (العربية السودانية) is the Arabic dialect group of Sudan, about 41 million first-language speakers, closest to Egyptian Arabic, with regional varieties (Shaigiya, Baggara, Darfur) and the creole Juba Arabic.
Sudanese Armed Forces (القوات المسلحة السودانية)
Sudanese Armed Forces (القوات المسلحة السودانية, SAF), Sudan's regular military descended from the 1925 Sudan Defence Force, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, about 134,000 strong, at war with the RSF since April 2023.
Sudanese corps
The Sudanese corps (السودانيون) was the African infantry of the Fatimid army in Egypt, recruited largely from Nubia; its rivalry with the Turkish troops ended in defeat in the 1060s.
Sudanese dinar
The Sudanese dinar was the currency of Sudan from June 1992 until 2007, introduced at 1 dinar = 10 old pounds and replaced under the 2005 peace agreement.
Sudanese literature
Sudanese literature (الأدب السوداني) is the written and oral literature of Sudan, carried mainly in Arabic, with its modern written form emerging in the early twentieth century.
Sudanese peace process
Sudanese peace process: negotiations to end Sudan's wars, from the 1972 Addis Ababa and 2005 CPA and 2020 Juba Agreement to post-2023 mediation tracks (Jeddah, Quad, Quintet) between SAF and RSF, and why ceasefires keep collapsing.
Sudanese pop (modern Sudanese pop)
Sudanese pop, also known as فن الغناء السوداني, is popular music rooted in Khartoum that grew from the golden era of orchestral radio singing led by Mohammed Wardi.
Sudanese pound
The Sudanese pound (SDG) is the official currency of Sudan, issued by the Central Bank of Sudan in Khartoum and introduced in January 2007 to replace the Sudanese dinar.
Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire
Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire: eight earthen mosques at Tengréla, Kouto, Sorobango, Samatiguila, Nambira, Kong and Kaouara, UNESCO World Heritage since 2021, criteria (ii) and (iv).
Sudanese transition to democracy (2019–2021)
Sudan's 2019–2021 democratic transition: after Omar al-Bashir's April 2019 overthrow, the FFC and military signed a constitutional charter creating a power-sharing Sovereign Council under Hamdok, ended by Burhan's October 2021 coup.
Sudanese Union – African Democratic Rally
Sudanese Union – African Democratic Rally (US-RDA, Union soudanaise – Rassemblement démocratique africain), Mali's ruling nationalist party founded 1945 by Modibo Keita and Mamadou Konaté; led Mali to independence in 1960, ruled as sole socialist party until the 1968 coup, and dissolved into the UM-RDA in 2010.