Dinder ( ar, الدندر) is a town in the
Sennar
Sennar ( ar, سنار ') is a city on the Blue Nile in Sudan and possibly the capital of the state of Sennar. It remains publicly unclear whether Sennar or Singa is the capital of Sennar State. For several centuries it was the capital of the F ...
state in eastern
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
. It is within a large loop of the
Dinder River
The Dinder River ( ar, نهر الدندر Nahr-ud-dindir, also spelled Dindar; ) is a tributary of the Blue Nile. It flows through Ethiopia and Sudan for .
Course
The Dinder River rises in the Ethiopian Highlands, west of Lake Tana in the Ethiopi ...
, on the western side.
Despite being northwest of the park boundary, Dinder acts as the gateway
for tourists seeking to visit the
Dinder National Park
Dinder National Park is a national park and biosphere reserve in eastern Sudan, and is connected to Ethiopia's Alitash National Park.
Location
Dinder lies approximately southeast of Khartoum, on either side of the Dinder River bounded to the n ...
.
References
Populated places in Sennar (state)
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