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The city was founded by the pashas of Ottoman Egypt in 1821.

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El Obeid

Sudan

Country
Sudan
Population
397.9K
Coordinates
13.18, 30.22
545th most populous city in the world

El-Obeid, also romanized as Al-Ubayyid, is the capital of the state of North Kordofan, in Sudan.

From the “History and overview” section

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: Tropical Photo Stores, G. Karakashian, Khartoum (Sudan) · Public Domain