Upper Nile State
Upper Nile is a state in South Sudan. The White Nile flows through the state, giving it its name. The state also shares a similar name with the region of Greater Upper Nile, of which it was part along with the states of Unity and Jonglei.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: state of South Sudan with 1,390,000 residents
- Description: state of South Sudan
- Also known as: “A‘alī an Nīl”, “A‘ālī an Nīl”, “Aʻāli en Nīl”, “As Sōbāt”, “Sobat”, “Upper Nile”, and “Wilāyat A‘ālī an Nīl”
Upper Nile State
- Location: South Sudan, Central Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Upper Nile State” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ላይ ላይ ኒል”
- Arabic: “أعالي النيل”
- Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Nil”
- Belarusian: “Верхні Ніл”
- Belarusian: “Штат Верхні Ніл”
- Bengali: “আপার নীল”
- Breton: “Nil Uhel”
- Bulgarian: “Горни Нил”
- Catalan: “Nil Superior”
- Catalan: “Upper Nile”
- Cebuano: “Upper Nile”
- Chinese: “上尼罗州”
- Chinese: “上尼罗省”
- Chinese: “上尼羅州”
- Chinese: “上尼羅省”
- Croatian: “Gornji Nil”
- Danish: “Upper Nile”
- Dutch: “A’ali an-Nil”
- Dutch: “A’ali-an-Nil”
- Dutch: “Upper Nile”
- Esperanto: “Supra Nilo”
- Finnish: “A’āli an Nīl”
- Finnish: “A’ali an-Nil”
- Finnish: “Upper Nile”
- Finnish: “Ylä-Niili”
- French: “Nil Supérieur”
- Galician: “Alto Nilo”
- Georgian: “ზემო ნილოსი”
- German: “A’ali an Nil”
- German: “A’ali an-Nil”
- German: “A’alī an-Nīl”
- German: “A’li an-Nil”
- German: “Aʿālī an-Nīl”
- German: “Oberer Nil”
- German: “Obernil”
- German: “SD-23”
- German: “Upper Nile”
- Greek: “Άπερ Νάιλ”
- Gujarati: “અપર નાઇલ”
- Hausa: “Babbar Nile”
- Hausa: “Upper Nile (jiha)”
- Hausa: “Upper Nile”
- Hebrew: “מדינת הנילוס העליון”
- Hindi: “ऊपरी नील”
- Indonesian: “A’aliy an-Nail”
- Indonesian: “Nil Hulu”
- Italian: “Alto Nilo”
- Japanese: “上ナイル州”
- Javanese: “Upper Nile”
- Kannada: “ಅಪ್ಪರ್ ನೈಲ್”
- Kazakh: “Жоғарғы Нил”
- Kirghiz: “Жогорку Нил”
- Korean: “나일 북부 주”
- Korean: “상나일주”
- Latvian: “Augšnīla”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinis Nilas”
- Macedonian: “Горен Нил”
- Malay: “Nil Hulu”
- Malay: “Upper Nile”
- Marathi: “अप्पर नाईल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Upper Nile”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nil Superior”
- Oromo: “Nili Gubbaa”
- Panjabi: “ਉਪਰਲੀ ਨਾਈਲ”
- Persian: “نیل بالا”
- Polish: “A’ali an-Nil”
- Polish: “Nil Górny”
- Polish: “Upper Nile”
- Portuguese: “A’aly an-Nyl”
- Portuguese: “Alto Nilo”
- Portuguese: “Upper Nile”
- Pushto: “لوړ نیل”
- Romanian: “Statul Nilul Superior”
- Russian: “Верхний Нил”
- Serbian: “Gornji Nil”
- Serbian: “Горњи Нил”
- Sinhala: “ඉහල නයිල්”
- Slovenian: “Zgornji Nil”
- Somali: “Nile Sare”
- Spanish: “Alto Nilo”
- Spanish: “Estado de Alto Nilo”
- Spanish: “Nilo Superior”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Nile ya Juu,Sudan”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Nile ya Juu”
- Swahili: “Nile ya Juu”
- Swahili: “Nile ya Kijuu”
- Swahili: “Upper Nile”
- Swedish: “A’ali an Nil”
- Swedish: “A’ali an-Nil”
- Swedish: “A’aly an-Nyl”
- Swedish: “Aala En Nil”
- Swedish: “Aâlâ En Nîl”
- Swedish: “Aali an-Nil”
- Swedish: “Övre Nilen”
- Swedish: “Upper Nile”
- Tajik: “Нили Болои”
- Tamil: “அப்பர் நில்”
- Tamil: “மேல் நைல் மாநிலம்”
- Tatar: “Өстәге Нил”
- Telugu: “ఎగువ నైల్”
- Thai: “ไนล์ตอนบน”
- Turkish: “Yukarı Nil Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Yukarı Nil”
- Ukrainian: “Верхній Ніл”
- Urdu: “بالائی نیل (اسٹیٹ)”
- Urdu: “بالائی نیل (ریاست)”
- Urdu: “بالائی نیل”
- Uzbek: “Yuqori Nil”
- Uzbek: “Юқори Нил”
- Vietnamese: “Thượng Nile”
- Vietnamese: “Thượng Nin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Iruigbaw nga Nilo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Upper Nile”
- Western Panjabi: “اتلا نیل”
- Zulu: “Upper Nile (isifundazwe)”
- Zulu: “Upper Nile”
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