Talk:States of Sudan

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[edit] Useful links

• http://www.statoids.com/usd.html for list of states in both Arabic and English version
• AllRefer Sudan Political Geography Articles

[edit] Naming

why wilaya is translated as state and not as province like for other arab countries? Tobias Conradi 20:02, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The official government site uses "states", so it is correct. Also English googling returns 8000 hits for "wilaya state" but only 739 for "wilaya province" so "state" appears to be the more widely used translation. - BanyanTree 20:28, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

thx for gov.sd - but why have they done this? BTW even government translations can be uncorrect, my english-googling

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=%22wilaya+province%22 = 272
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=%22wilaya+state%22 = 187

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=%22province+province%22 = 88
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=%22province+province%22 = 37

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=wilaya+province = 3640
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=wilaya+state = 8540

Tobias Conradi 20:54, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I've responded on Talk:Provinces of Mongolia. The same term in another language doesn't have to be translated as the same term in English. -- ran (talk) 21:10, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)