Product Description
SCWPM.#44b - TBB.#B329b - Date: ١٩٨٩ (March 1989)Grade: Unc. - Signature: 8b - Mahdi El Faki (small)
Description: Colour: Green.
Front: Arabic text; shield; University of Khartoum building; map; open book.
Back: English text; Bank of Sudan headquarters building in Khartoum; coin.
Solid security thread. - Watermark: Coat of arms.
Printer: (Thomas De La Rue). - Size: 160 x 80 mm.
Material: Paper.
Sudan,
country located in northeastern Africa. The name Sudan derives from the Arabic expression bilād al-sūdān (“land of the blacks”), by which medieval Arab geographers referred to the settled African countries that began at the southern edge of the Sahara. For more than a century, Sudan—first as a colonial holding, then as an independent country—included its neighbour South Sudan, home to many sub-Saharan African ethnic groups. Prior to the secession of the south in 2011, Sudan was the largest African country, with an area that represented more than 8 percent of the African continent and almost 2 percent of the world’s total land area.
