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Wad Madani
Wad Madani is the capital of Al Jazirah state in east-central Sudan. In 1993, it's population was 211,362. It is linked by rail to Khartoum and is the center of a cotton-growing region. The city is also the center of local trade in barley, livestock and wheat.
In the early eighteenth century is was a small Turko-Egyptian outpost, and grew rapidly following a 1925 program to stimulate local economic development.
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