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Atbara's location on the map of Sudan

Atbara (town),

town, northeastern Sudan, in Northern Province, at the confluence of the ‘Atbarah and Nile rivers, near Ad Damir. ‘Atbarah is a rail junction and trade center in an area producing cotton, wheat, corn, barley, and livestock. It is the headquarters of the government railways and has large workshops and a technical school. Population (1983) 73,009.

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also called the Black Nile, the only tributary of the Nile River north of Khartoum,Sudan. It is 1120 km (695 mi) long, and rises in the Ethiopian highlands west of Gonder, and not far from Lake T’ana. It flows northwest into Sudan, where it joins the larger Tekezee tributary. The ‘Atbarah then joins the Nile at the town of ‘Atbarah. From June to August the river is swollen by the summer rains, and provides more than one-fifth of the Nile’s total volume of water. It also brings down more than 11,000,000 tons of silt a year, which adds to the accumulations in Lake Nasser behind the Aswan High Dam. From November to May the ‘Atbarah dwindles to a mere trickle, and appears only as a series of pools.

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Atbara is made of many districts , some of them are quiet old , the others are rather new and modern ones .Within the old ones we can count :

hey al souq(market district ), al faki madani, almorbaat. al dakhla, al morda, al galla, al tileah ,om bkoul and alhasaya.From the newest ones are :al amitidad al shargi , al amitdad alshamali, hay al matar , imtidad al daraga al awla.

Atbara has also some specific districts like al sudana( a exclusive district on the bank of the Nile ) al sika hadied (For the workers and employers of Sudan Rail Ways Company)hay al aumal( Workers district).

Atbara has its suburb districts which are connected strongly to Atbara's economical and social life , like khilewa, Siedon , Al akad (um al tiour)

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Atbara has many primary , intermediate and secondary schools , the main secondary schools in atbata are :atbara al hakomia al gadima), atbara al hakomia al gadida), atbara al snaiea (atbara Technical school), al niel (Nile school)atbara al hakomia banat (State school for girls)Atbara al tigaria and atbara al tigaria banat(Atbara commercial school and Atbara girls' commercial school.

There is also acount of public and private secondary schools , like compony school, Egyptian orthodoxy's school ,Sudanese orthodoxy's school ,and others.

The eldest high school in Atbara is Mechanical Engineering College , which is a chapter of Academy of Technology Colleges -named now University of Sudan -and the independent Pedagogical College .and some other new colleges within the so -named North University.

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Distance to other Towns

Atbara distance to other towns in Northern and Eastern Sudan is like the folowing:

700 km :to  Wadi Halfa
500 km  :to   Port Sudan
100 km : to Meroe
150 km : to   Shendi
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Links to Atbara's related sites

Weather Underground: Atbara, Sudan Weather Conditions - Atbara, Sudan Forecast Metric | English | Both Updated: 06:28 UTC on March 22, 1998 Observed at Atbara, Sudan Temperature 70° F / 21° C Humidity 26% Dewpoint 35° F / 2° C Wind North at 6 mph / 9.7 kph Pressure 29.91 in / 1013...
--http://www.wunderground.com:88/global/stations/62680.html

Discovery Online, Earth Alert - Temperature Extremes - Discovery Online Earth Alert
--http://eagle.online.discovery.com/news/earthalert/980316/...

Sudan. The Nile area - GUIDED TOUR The Nile. Wadi Halfa to Khartoum On this journey we start in Wadi Halfa, assuming you make this a part of your visit to Egypt. We will go down the Nile, almost all the way to Khartoum, and then head back, quickly, to Wadi Halfa (the...
--http://www.i-cias.com/m.s/sudan/sud_t_2.htm

Miftah Shamali- Sudan - The largest, most colourful and reliable travelling and culture guide to Sudan.
--http://www.i-cias.com/m.s/sudan/index.htm

The Nile River - The Nile River By: Chrissy Anderson You may think that the Nile River is just the longest river in the world. Well, your right it is the longest river in the world it's 4,187 miles long! There is a lot more geography to the Nile then just being the.
--http://bvsd.k12.co.us/schools/cent/Newspaper/mar97/Nile.html

The Nile River - The Nile River The Nile River is the longest river in the world, stretching for 4,187 miles. The Nile flows from south to north and is formed by three major tributaries; the White Nile, the Blue Nile and the Atbara. The White Nile rises from its...
--http://website1.lanminds.com/Odyssey/wk1Nile.html

Railway Technology - Industry Associations - Sudan - Railway Technology Associations Directory - Sudan - associations, institutes, societies and government departments for the railways industry.
--http://www.railway-technology.com/industry/sudan.html

Personal Information - Personal Information Name: Elhussein ELARBI (photo) Place of Birth: Atbara, SUDAN. Social status: married 2 Childeren (Mohamed and Shaza) Nationality: Sudanese. Activity now: Doctoral candidate in civil engineering at institut fü r statik -TU...
--http://www.yi.com/home/ElarabiHussein/hhh2hhh2.html

RECORD RAINS FLOOD SUDAN AND ETHIOPIA - RECORD RAINS FLOOD SUDAN AND ETHIOPIA Heavy rains in Sudan swell the Blue Nile and Atbara Rivers beyond levels reached in the record 1988 flood that killed scores of people and made half a million homeless. The affected area stretches from the...
--http://xs2.greenpeace.org/~climate/database/records/zgpz0...

The 1998 NMSF Visitors Book - The 1998 NMSF Visitors Book Searching our family history I find my grandfather, JOHN JAMES SYKES (who died in Atbara, Sudan in the early 1920's while working for the railways) was a Freemason. The Freemasons looked after my Italian (non English...
--http://www.compulink.co.uk/~petal/visit98.htm

The Beja of Sudan, Eritrea and Egypt - The Beja of Sudan, Eritrea and Egypt The Closely kin to the ancient Egyptians (Paul, Seligman). The name Beja is applied to a grouping of Muslim peoples speaking dialects of a Cushitic language called Beja.
--http://www.cproject.com/obj04.htm


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