The Corinthia Hotel Khartoum is a five-star hotel in central

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...

, the capital of Sudan, on the meeting point of the

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and White Nile and in the centre of Khartoum's commercial, business, and administrative districts. It is located next to the Friendship Hall of

and the

Tuti Bridge The Tuti-Khartoum Bridge is a modern suspension bridge linking between Tuti Island and the City of Khartoum that was completed in February 2008. In the past the only approach to Tuti Island was via ferries but thanks to the Tuti-Khartoum Bridge, e ...

Architecture

The hotel was opened on 17 August 2008. It has 18 guest floors, 173 rooms and 57 suites. The hotel has six restaurants and cafés and leisure facilities including spa, gym, tennis and squash courts.

Owner

It was built and financed by the Libyan government at a cost of over 80 million euros. The building has an oval curved facade; like the

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, the

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, and the Grand Millennium in Sulaymaniyah; it was designed to resemble a ship's sail. It is known as "

Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...

's Egg" because it is funded by the Libyan government at the time.

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* * Buildings and structures in Khartoum Hotels in Sudan Hotel buildings completed in 2008 Hotels established in 2008 {{Sudan-struct-stub