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There is a road going through it, but the city is unmarked. The conclusion in the forum is that this city is Gereida, but a search for it doesn't return anything in GM.

https://www.google.com.br/maps/preview#!q=11%C2%B016%E2%80%B...

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One interesting thing is that the search for "Gereida" does work, but only if I'm already over Sudan. I guess it needs more context to do the search, but "Gereida, Sudan" isn't sufficient.

edit: it does work anywhwere if you search for "Gereida near Buram, Sudan", but I don't think anyone would ever search for that.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=11.28+25.14&ll=11.275808,25.1...

(It is not visible at lower zooms)

Hmm, I'm using the new Maps "preview" interface, looks like the city only shows up in the old version.

edit: the marker appears and disappears in a seemingly random way, and goes away completely after zooming in satellite mode.

It is named on the map view (non-satellite) for the 3 highest zoom levels. I also doubted dmayle's allegation, but did find the label after a minute of searching. I agree with the suggestion that the label should show up on lower zoom levels.

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