Wad Madani
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Wad Madani (Arabic: ودمدني) is the capital of Al Jazirah state in east-central Sudan. In 1993, its 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 it was a small Turko-Egyptian outpost, and grew rapidly following the 1925 Gezira Scheme to stimulate local economic development. Wad Madani is a commercial centre of the Gezira agricultural district and is mostly residential. The number of inhabitants is apparently closing in on a million.[citation needed] Wad Madani has lively commercial activities with good souqs. The beaches of Wad Madani are situated on the eastern river bank of the Blue Nile. The city's facilities are more modernized than most places in the Sudan (except the Khartoum area). Wad Madani is a honeymoon destination for many Sudanese, which adds to a fairly easygoing atmosphere.
The popular Sudanese singer Abdel Aziz El Mubarak was born in Wad Madani in 1951.
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