Torit
Torit is a city in South Sudan that is the headquarters of Torit County in Eastern Equatoria State. The Equitoria Corps mutinied in Torit after independence rather than be removed to Khartoum and Arab control, starting the first civil war in Sudan.- Type: City with 18,000 residents
- Description: city in South Sudan
- Also known as: “Torrit” and “トリトゥ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Torit Airport.
Torit
- Category: locality
- Location: Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
4.41345° or 4° 24′ 48″ north
Longitude
32.56822° or 32° 34′ 6″ east
Population
18,000
Elevation
617 metres (2,024 feet)
UN/LOCODE
SS TOR
Open location code
6GPJCH79+97
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Torit” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቶሪት”
- Arabic: “توريت”
- Asturian: “Torit”
- Azerbaijani: “Torit”
- Bengali: “টরিট”
- Breton: “Torit”
- Catalan: “Torit”
- Cebuano: “Torit”
- Chinese: “托里特”
- Danish: “Torit”
- Dutch: “Torit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توريت”
- Finnish: “Torit”
- French: “Torit”
- German: “Torit”
- Greek: “Τορίτ”
- Hausa: “Torit”
- Hebrew: “טוריט”
- Hindi: “टोरित”
- Indonesian: “Torit”
- Italian: “Torit”
- Japanese: “トリット (南スーダン)”
- Japanese: “トリット”
- Javanese: “Torit”
- Kazakh: “Торит”
- Kirghiz: “Торит”
- Korean: “토리트”
- Lithuanian: “Toritas (Pietų Sudanas)”
- Lithuanian: “Toritas”
- Malay: “Torit”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torit”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Torit”
- Oromo: “Torit”
- Panjabi: “ਟੋਰਿਟ”
- Persian: “توریت”
- Polish: “Torit”
- Portuguese: “Torit”
- Portuguese: “Torite”
- Pushto: “توریت”
- Russian: “Торит”
- Serbian: “Torit”
- Serbian: “Торит”
- Somali: “Torit”
- Spanish: “Torit”
- Swahili: “Torit”
- Swedish: “Torit”
- Tajik: “Торит”
- Tatar: “Торит”
- Turkish: “Torit”
- Ukrainian: “Торит (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Торит”
- Ukrainian: “Торіт”
- Urdu: “توریت (شہر)”
- Urdu: “توریت”
- Uzbek: “Torit”
- Vietnamese: “Torit”
- Waray (Philippines): “Torit”
- Zulu: “Torit”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Bari and Loronyo.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Torit Municipal and Minibus Station.
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