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Khartoum North

Sudan

Watercolour of Khartoum North, Sudan. Along the northern bank of the Blue Nile and eastern bank of the main Nile, centered around the iconic Blue Nile Bridge (Shambat Bridge) and the lush agricultural river island of Tuti Island, with Blue Nile Road and Railway Bridge and Shambat Bridge.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Blue Nile Road and Railway Bridge; Shambat Bridge; Tuti Island; Bahri; Blue Nile; Sudanese; lush riparian Nile oasis flora; Nile
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the Blue Nile toward Khartoum North with the historic steel bridge in view, showing date palm fronds and river reeds in the foreground, the calm Nile waters, wooden fishing boats, and steel bridge trusses in the middle-ground, and the lush green orchards of Tuti Island and the distant Nile horizon fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick date palm groves along the Nile, mango orchards of Tuti Island, and shady neem trees lining the streets.
Guarded against
Not central Khartoum or Omdurman
Population1,012,211Wikidata: 900,000
Coordinates15.65°N, 32.53°E
Time zoneAfrica/KhartoumUTC+2
Solar noon11:50clock runs 0.2 h behind the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Khartoum North and you surface nearest to Avatoru, French Polynesia — 83 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

OmdurmanSD5 km
KhartoumSD11 km
AsmaraER687 km
JeddahSA956 km
Addis AbabaET1,000 km
MakkahSA1,002 km
JubaSS1,205 km
MadinahSA1,228 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Khartoum North inside this atlas.

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