Leer
Leer is a town in the Leer County of Unity State in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. It is the capital of Leer County and was the capital of the former Southern Liech State. It is the most densely populated county in South Sudan.- Type: City with 10,500 residents
- Description: human settlement in South Sudan
- Also known as: “Leer, South Sudan” and “Lɛ̈r”
Leer
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Unity State, South Sudan, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
8.30408° or 8° 18′ 15″ north
Longitude
30.14115° or 30° 8′ 28″ east
Population
10,500
Elevation
397 metres (1,302 feet)
Open location code
6GWG843R+JF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Leer” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليير”
- Bengali: “লীর, দক্ষিন সুদান”
- Bengali: “লীর”
- Catalan: “Leer”
- Cebuano: “Leer”
- Chinese: “南,南苏丹”
- Czech: “Leer”
- Danish: “Leer, South Sudan”
- Danish: “Leer”
- Dutch: “Leer, South Sudan”
- Dutch: “Leer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليير”
- Finnish: “Leer, South Sudan”
- Finnish: “Leer”
- French: “Leer”
- German: “Leer, Südsudan”
- German: “Leer”
- German: “Ler”
- German: “Līr”
- Greek: “Λιρ, Νότιο Σουδάν”
- Greek: “Λιρ”
- Gujarati: “લીર, સાઉથ સુદાન”
- Gujarati: “લીર”
- Hindi: “लीर”
- Indonesian: “Leer, Sudan Selatan”
- Indonesian: “Leer”
- Italian: “Leer, South Sudan”
- Italian: “Leer”
- Japanese: “リーア”
- Japanese: “レー”
- Japanese: “レール”
- Kannada: “ಲೀರ್, ಸೌತ್ ಸುಡಾನ್”
- Kannada: “ಲೀರ್”
- Korean: “리어”
- Latvian: “Līra, Dienvidsudāna”
- Latvian: “Līra”
- Lithuanian: “Lyras”
- Malay: “Leer, Sudan Selatan”
- Malay: “Leer”
- Marathi: “लीर, साऊथ सुदान”
- Marathi: “लीर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leer, Sør Sudan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leer”
- Polish: “Leer, Sudan Południowy”
- Polish: “Leer”
- Russian: “Лер”
- Russian: “Лир (Южный Судан)”
- Russian: “Лир”
- Sinhala: “ලියර්, දකුණු සුඩානය”
- Sinhala: “ලියර්”
- Spanish: “Leer”
- Swedish: “Leer, Sydsudan”
- Swedish: “Leer”
- Tamil: “லீர், தெற்கு சூடான்”
- Tamil: “லீர்”
- Telugu: “లీర్, దక్షిణ సూడాన్”
- Telugu: “లీర్”
- Thai: “เลียร์, เซาท์ซูดาน”
- Thai: “เลียร์”
- Turkish: “Leer, Güney Sudan”
- Turkish: “Leer”
- Ukrainian: “Лір”
- Urdu: “لییر ، ساؤتھ سوڈان”
- Vietnamese: “Leer, Nam Sudan”
- Vietnamese: “Leer”
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