The Condominium of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is situated in northern Africa extending immediately south of Egypt, bounded by Italian East Africa and the Red Sea on the east, French Equatorial Africa on the west, and extending to the northern borders of Kenya, Uganda, and the Belgian Congo. The territory has an area of 969,600 sq. mi. and a population, according to the latest estimates, of 6,186,847 inhabitants, a large proportion of which are nomads. The non-natives number 54,473 persons. The capital of the territory is Khartoum.
The principal products of the colony are gum arabic and cotton. The Sudan is the world's principal source of gum arabic and exported in 1937, 19,761 tons of this product, valued at £E717,798 (the £E equals 1 £ 6d.). In the same year, the Sudan produced 55,700 metric tons of ginned cotton from 442,130 acres. Other important products of the territory are dates, chili, senna leaves, groundnuts, melons, beans, maize, sesame, hides and skins, ivory and vegetable ivory (from dom nuts), and millet. The Sudan also exports mahogany, fibers and tanning materials. There are salt pans at Port Sudan and gold is found in the Red Sea hills. The total exports in 1937 were valued at £E8,130,450 and the total imports at £E6,283,500.
The Condominium is administered by a Governor-General, appointed by Egypt with the assent of Great Britain and assisted by a Governor-General's Council. The flags of both Egypt and Great Britain are flown, and all decrees, laws and regulations are made by the Governor-General in Council. The present Governor-General is Sir George Symes, appointed October 1933. In April 1939, a Committee was chosen to define the exact boundaries between the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Ethiopia.
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