Heritage sites, national parks and historic towns on UNESCO's lists for the country, each with its published source. Published information, not paid listings.
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The royal city and pyramid fields of the Kingdom of Kush between the Nile and the Atbara, with the sites of Naqa and Musawwarat es-Sufra. Sudan's best-known archaeological landscape.
The sacred mountain of Gebel Barkal with its temples, and the Napatan royal cemeteries and pyramids of the surrounding sites on the Nile.
Sudan's only natural World Heritage site: a coral reef atoll off Port Sudan and a bay with islands, reefs and seagrass to the north. The base of Red Sea diving in Sudan.
The historic Red Sea port on a coral island, with its coral-stone houses, mosques and causeway, and the pilgrim route to the Hijaz.
The capital of the Kingdom of Kerma, with the great mud-brick Deffufa and the temples of Dokki Geil beside it.
The medieval capital of the Christian Nubian kingdom of Makuria on the Nile: churches, a throne hall later turned into a mosque, and the domed tombs beside the town.
A medieval Nubian pilgrimage centre with a church complex and wall paintings, a short distance from Old Dongola.
A large Nile island with remains from prehistory through the Kerma, Egyptian, Meroitic, Christian and Ottoman periods.
A sandstone temple of the Egyptian New Kingdom on the west bank of the Nile, among the largest Egyptian temples in Sudan.
A historic Nile river town of mud-brick houses and merchants' buildings from the Funj and Turco-Egyptian periods.
Sudan's oldest and largest savanna national park, along the Dinder and Rahad rivers on the Ethiopian border, with seasonal wetlands (mayas) and large mammals.
A mountain massif rising from the Kordofan plain, protected for its woodland, springs and wildlife.
A national park submitted to UNESCO's Tentative List in 2021 as a natural site.
A savanna and woodland park in the far south-west, on the border with the Central African Republic.
A volcanic massif in Darfur with the Deriba crater lakes at its summit, a cooler, wetter highland with orchards and waterfalls.
The dry bed of a former Nile tributary across the Sahara, with prehistoric sites and the stone fortress of Gala Abou Ahmed.
Published information with its source, not a paid listing. Photos are from Wikimedia Commons under the licence shown on each; the photographer is named.
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