South Sudan

==Etymology==
The name ''Sudan'' is a name given to a [[Sudan (region)|geographical region]] to the south of the [[Sahara]], stretching from Western Africa to eastern Central Africa. The name derives from the Arabic ''{{transliteration|ar|bilād as-sūdān}}'' ({{lang|ar|بلاد السودان}}), or the "Land of the [[Black people|Blacks]]"<ref>{{citation| author = International Association for the History of Religions| title = Numen| publisher = EJ Brill| place = Leiden| year = 1959| page = 131| quote = West Africa may be taken as the country stretching from Senegal in the West to the Cameroons in the East; sometimes it has been called the central and western Sudan, the ''Bilad as-Sūdan'', 'Land of the Blacks', of the Arabs}}</ref> The term was used by Arab traders and travellers in the region to refer to the various indigenous black African cultures and societies that they encountered.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Empires of the Western Sudan|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wsem/hd_wsem.htm|access-date=2022-12-30|website=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art|Met museum]]}}</ref>
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