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 "class": "place",
 "slug": "bilad-al-sudan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بلاد السودان",
  "en": "Bilad al-Sudan (the Sudan belt)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الإقليم الساحلي-السوداني جنوب الصحراء، من السنغال إلى حوض النيل؛ «بلاد السودان» عند الجغرافيين المسلمين.",
  "en": "The Sahel-Sudan belt south of the Sahara, Senegal to the Nile basin; the geographers’ «land of the blacks»."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
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  "west-africa-sahel"
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 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  13,
  -5
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 "data": {
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  "coordinates": [
   13,
   -5
  ],
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  "coordinate_note": "Approximate regional centre; flagged for gazetteer verification.",
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   "source/wikidata",
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "person-place-geo-a",
   "note": "Region entity created so persons whose records substantiate only a broad region still resolve on the map; centre point approximate."
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 38,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
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    "source/al-aalam"
   ],
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  },
  {
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    "source/wikidata-abdou-diouf",
    "source/wikipedia-king-faisal-prize-en"
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  },
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   "to": "person/abdou-khadre-mbacke",
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   "inverse": true,
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    "source/al-aalam"
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  },
  {
   "to": "person/abdoul-wahab-dieye",
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   "inverse": true,
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   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/abdoulaye-wade",
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   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Place association from the person's nisba/name (سنغالي); denotes association, not proven residence.",
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    "source/wikipedia-abdoulaye-wade-ar",
    "source/wikipedia-abdoulaye-wade-fr",
    "source/wikidata-abdoulaye-wade"
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   "confidence": "low"
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  {
   "to": "person/abdullahi-dan-fodio",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
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   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
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   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/abu-abdallah-al-baridi",
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   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Place association from the person's nisba/name (مالي); denotes association, not proven residence.",
   "sources": [
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   "confidence": "low"
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  {
   "to": "person/ahmad-fanakati",
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   "to": "person/ahmad-tajuddin",
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    "source/wikipedia-ahmad-tajuddin-ms",
    "source/wikipedia-ahmad-tajuddin-ar",
    "source/wikipedia-ahmad-tajuddin-ur",
    "source/wikidata-ahmad-tajuddin"
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   "to": "person/akon",
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    "source/wikipedia-akon-ar",
    "source/wikipedia-akon-ur",
    "source/wikidata-akon"
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   "confidence": "low"
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  {
   "to": "person/al-hajj-umar-tal",
   "type": "home_of",
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   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
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   "confidence": "low"
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  {
   "to": "person/ali-farka-toure",
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    "source/wikipedia-ali-farka-toure-fr",
    "source/wikipedia-ali-farka-toure-ar",
    "source/wikipedia-ali-farka-toure-ur",
    "source/wikidata-ali-farka-toure"
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   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/alpha-oumar-konare",
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   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Place association from the person's nisba/name (مالي); denotes association, not proven residence.",
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  {
   "to": "person/amadou-bamba",
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    "source/wikipedia-amadou-bamba-fr",
    "source/wikipedia-amadou-bamba-ar",
    "source/wikidata-amadou-bamba",
    "source/wikipedia-amadou-bamba-ur"
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   "confidence": "low"
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  {
   "to": "person/amadou-dan-tenimoun",
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   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Only the record-level region (west-africa-sahel) is attested; broad-region edge flagged for review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
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   "confidence": "low"
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  {
   "to": "person/amadou-hampate-ba",
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    "source/wikipedia-amadou-hampate-ba-en",
    "source/wikipedia-amadou-hampate-ba-ar",
    "source/wikidata-amadou-hampate-ba",
    "source/world-wisdom-amadou-hampate-ba"
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   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/asma-harun",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Place association from the person's nisba/name (نيجري); denotes association, not proven residence.",
   "sources": [
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   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/assimi-goita",
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   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Place association from the person's nisba/name (مالي); denotes association, not proven residence.",
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    "source/wikipedia-assimi-goita-en",
    "source/wikipedia-assimi-goita-ar",
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   "confidence": "low"
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  {
   "to": "person/ayuba-suleiman-diallo",
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    "source/bluett-memoirs-job-1734"
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   "confidence": "low"
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 "related": [
  "person/serigne-saliou-mbacke",
  "person/abdou-diouf",
  "person/abdoulaye-wade",
  "award/king-faisal-prize",
  "person/ahmadu-tall",
  "person/ba-lobbo",
  "person/leopold-sedar-senghor",
  "person/macky-sall"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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