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to Wadi Halfa northward along the Nubian desert, and southward
to Khartoum, the capital. Therefore it is a major transportation
Centre connecting major ports in the capital, as it connect the most
important urban centers in the territory and centered where Barbar
is located in its North and Damer and Shendi in its South, and all
are the largest cities in the region.

- the Earth appears semi- flat from the city, but it is a little
higher in its Eastern and Northern parts than its other regions , and
ranging to fall toward the Nile River and Atbara tributary, where
the greenery and abundance of trees, while the aridity control on
the northern and eastern areas that far away from it . The result of
the slope of the land on this picture was emerging of watercourses
(creeks) in this region, which affected in determining the way of
construction and its trends. There are six major watercourses r,
three in North-South direction, this mean that they descend from the
North and flows into the Atbara River. The other three watercourses
extending in eastern direction to the West, and flows into the main
Nile, and they find in the villages of Alddakhilia and Alssiala, in
Northwest of the city. These watercourses used to drainage the
rainwater .(18)
The city Features.

- It is the nearest city to port of Sudan (Port Sudan) by land,
railway and air ways, and it locate at the confluence of the Nile with
Atbara River from the North and then the main Nile is completed
entirely, as well as Atbara- Meroe road and Atbara-Abu Hamed
road, which will extend to Egypt to become Atbara after this the
center of crossroads.

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