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Darfur
Darfur ((アラビア語:دار فور) ', (英語:Realm of the Fur)) is a region in western Sudan. It was firstly named Dardaju ((アラビア語:دار داجو)) when the Daju, who migrated from Meroe c.350 AD, were ruling. Then renamed Dartunjur ((アラビア語:دار تنجر)) when the Tunjur were ruling the country and who had been replaced by the Fur recent immigrants from Dar Fartit in the Central Africa. Darfur was a independent sultanate for several hundred years, incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916. The region is divided into five federal states: Central Darfur, East Darfur, North Darfur, South Darfur and West Darfur. Because of the war in Darfur between Sudanese government forces and the indigenous population, the region has been in a state of humanitarian emergency since 2003.
==Geography==
Darfur covers an area of , approximately the size of Spain. It is largely an arid plateau with the Marrah Mountains (Jebel Marra), a range of volcanic peaks rising up to of topographic prominence, in the center of the region. The region's main towns are Al Fashir and Nyala.
There are four main features of its physical geography. The whole eastern half of Darfur is covered with plains and low hills of sandy soils, known as ''goz'', and sandstone hills. In many places the ''goz'' is waterless and can only be inhabited where there are water reservoirs or deep boreholes. While dry, ''goz'' may also support rich pasture and arable land. To the north the ''goz'' is overtaken by the desert sands of the Sahara. A second feature are the ''wadis'', which range from seasonal watercourses that flood only occasionally during the wet season to large ''wadis'' that flood for most of the rains and flow from western Darfur hundreds of kilometres west to Lake Chad. Many ''wadis'' have pans of alluvium with rich heavy soil that are also difficult to cultivate. Western Darfur is dominated by the third feature, basement rock, sometimes covered with a thin layer of sandy soil. Basement rock is too infertile to be farmed, but provides sporadic forest cover that can be grazed by animals. The fourth and final feature are the Marrah Mountains and Daju Hills, volcanic plugs created by a massif, that rise up to a peak at Deriba crater where there is a small area of temperate climate, high rainfall and permanent springs of water.
Remote sensing has detected the imprint of a vast underground lake under Darfur. The potential water deposits are estimated at . The lake, during epochs when the region was more humid, would have contained about 2500 km3 (607 cubic miles) of water.〔("Underground lake may bring Darfur peace: scientist" ) by Tanzina Vega, ''Reuters'', July 18, 2007〕 It may have dried up thousands of years ago.〔(Ancient Darfur lake 'is dried up' ), BBC, July 20, 2007〕
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