DARFUR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An impoverished region of western Sudan

Example:

Darfur was a semi-independent sultanate until 1917 and is ethnically distinct from central Sudan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Holonyms ("Darfur" is a part of...):

Republic of the Sudan; Soudan; Sudan (a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956)

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