**Sudan** (officially the **Republic of the Sudan**) or **North Sudan**
is an authoritarian [capitalist](Capitalism "wikilink")
[state](List_of_States "wikilink") in Northern Africa, bordering
[Egypt](Egypt "wikilink"), [Libya](Libya "wikilink"),
[Chad](Chad "wikilink"), [the CAR](Central_African_Republic "wikilink"),
[South Sudan](South_Sudan "wikilink"), [Ethiopia](Ethiopia "wikilink")
and [Eritrea](Eritrea "wikilink").