With the exception of Jebel Dair, most of the region is fairly flat.

It is hot and semiarid, and marginally suited for subsistence agriculture, as well as for commercial crops of peanuts, sesame, and gum arabic.

Drainage patterns dominate the landscape in central Sudan west of the White Nile River.

Several major wadis, intermittently flowing watercourses, merge west and northwest of the mountain.

The sand dunes nearby capture the wide variation in annual precipitation in the region, which makes agricultural activity tenuous.