Janub Darfur (Southern Darfur) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 127,300 km2 and an estimated population of approximately 2,700,000 (2000). Nyala is the capital of the state.
Darfur's economy is primarily based on subsistence agriculture, producing cereals, fruit and tobacco as well as livestock in the drier north.
The natives of Bahr el Ghazal paid tribute to Darfur, and these were the chief articles of merchandise sold by the Darfurians to the Egyptian traders along the road to Asyut.
Northern Darfur's capital is Al Fashir; Southern Darfur's is Nyala; and Wester Darfur's is Al Junaynah.
Darfur covers an area of some 196,555 km² (75,890 miles²), with an estimated population of around 3.1 million people.
Hassan is described as a religious but avaricious man. In the later part of his reign he became involved in trouble with the Arab slave raiders who had seized the Bahr el Ghazal, looked upon by the Darfurians as their especial slave preserve.
The natives of Bahr el Ghazal paid tribute of ivory and slaves to Darfur, and these were the chief articles of merchandise sold by the Darfurians to the Egyptian traders along the road to Asyut.
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