Sudan hosts roughly five hundred politically significant tribes

Evidence

At least eighteen major tribes have played significant roles in Libyan development, and some five hundred tribes are said to live in the Sudan, the largest of which encompasses 12 percent of the country’s population. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 472

Categorization

• SHARE: A highly specific figure worth passing to anyone working on Sudan’s politics or ethnic fractionalization — the sheer scale of five hundred tribes with one holding 12 percent of the population is striking.