Sudan - Africa's biggest country - has split in two. Southerners voted in a referendum to break away from the north and on 9 July 2011 the independent country of South Sudan was born. These maps show the extent of the divisions in Sudan - a richer, Arabic-speaking, Muslim north and a poorer south devastated by years of conflict and neglect.
Sudan: A country divided
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The great divide across Sudan is visible even from space, as this Nasa satellite image shows. The northern states are a blanket of desert, broken only by the fertile Nile corridor. South Sudan is covered by green swathes of grassland, swamps and tropical forest.
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