Khartoum or Khartum (/ k ɑːr ˈ t uː m / ⓘ kar-TOOM; [6] [7] Arabic: الخرطوم, romanized: al-Khurṭūm, pronounced [al.xur.tˤuːm]) is the capital city of Sudan as well as Khartoum State. With an estimated population of 7.1 million people, Greater Khartoum is the largest urban area in Sudan.

5 days ago · Khartoum is a city and the executive capital of Sudan, just south of the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers. It has bridge connections with its sister towns, Khartoum North and Omdurman, with which it forms Sudan’s largest conurbation.

Khartoum or Khartum (/ k ɑːr ˈ t uː m / kar-TOOM; [5] [6] Arabic: الخرطوم, romanized: Al-Khurṭūm) is the capital city of Sudan. It is also Sudan's largest city. It is where the Blue Nile and main Nile come together. Its name means "elephant tusk". Two other cities nearby are Omdurman and Khartoum North.

Apr 25, 2025 · Khartoum, Sudan's capital city has recently been liberated by the Sudanese army after two years of occupation. NPR visited found a hollowed out and shattered city devastated by the civil war.

Khartoum State (Arabic: ولاية الخرطوم, romanized: Wilāyat al-Kharṭūm) is one of the eighteen states of Sudan. Although it is the smallest state by area (22,142 km 2), it is the most populous state in Sudan—5,274,321 in the 2008 census, [4] [5] and officially estimated at 7,993,900 in 2018.

Divided by the Blue and White Niles, Khartoum is a tripartite metropolis consisting of Khartoum proper, and linked by bridges to Khartoum North called al-Khartūm Bahrī and Omdurman (Umm Durmān) to the west.

Apr 1, 2025 · The battered heart of Khartoum lies eerily quiet now, after weeks of intense urban combat in the Sudanese capital. We entered the city just days after Sudan's army recaptured it from the ...