- a region in the E Sudan between the White and Blue Nile rivers, S of Khartoum: a former kingdom.
- a region of the E Sudan, between the White Nile and the Blue Nile: a kingdom from the 16th to 19th centuries
- a town in this region, on the Blue Nile: the nearby Sennar Dam (1925) supplies irrigation water to Gezira. Pop: 135 000 (2005 est)
