Abyei Area
The Abyei Special Administrative Area is an area of 10,546 km2 or 4,072 sq mi on the border between South Sudan and Sudan that has been accorded "special administrative status" by the 2004 Protocol on the Resolution of the Abyei Conflict in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the Second Sudanese Civil War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sudan Envoy, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: area in Sudan established by the Abyei Protocol
- Also known as: “Abyei” and “Abyei Special Administrative Area”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abyei.
Abyei
Photo: Sudan Envoy, CC BY 2.0.
Abyei is a town that is administered by Sudan and claimed by South Sudan. It has been one of the flashpoints in the ongoing conflict between the two countries since the Sudanese Civil Wars, as it is disputed between the two countries.
Abyei Area
- Categories: disputed territory, state of South Sudan, and state of Sudan
- Location: Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Abyei Area” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أبيي”
- Arabic: “منطقة أبيي”
- Catalan: “Abyei”
- Chinese: “艾卜耶”
- Chinese: “艾卜耶地區”
- Chinese: “阿卜耶伊地区”
- Croatian: “Područje Abjej”
- Czech: “Abyei”
- Czech: “Oblast Abyei”
- Danish: “Abyei”
- Dinka: “Abiɛi”
- Dutch: “Abyei”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ابيى”
- Estonian: “Abyei”
- Finnish: “Abyei”
- French: “Abiyé (région)”
- French: “Abiyé”
- French: “Région d’Abiyé”
- Georgian: “აბიეი”
- German: “Abyei-Gebiet”
- German: “Abyei”
- Greek: “Αμπιγί”
- Hebrew: “אביי”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אביי”
- Indonesian: “Abyei”
- Italian: “Abyei (distretto)”
- Italian: “Abyei”
- Japanese: “アビエ”
- Japanese: “アビエイ”
- Japanese: “アビエ地区”
- Korean: “아브예이”
- Korean: “아비에이”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abyei”
- Norwegian: “Abyei”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zona administrativa especiala d’Abiei”
- Persian: “ابیی”
- Portuguese: “Abiei”
- Portuguese: “Abyei”
- Romanian: “Abyei (regiune)”
- Romanian: “Abyei”
- Romanian: “zona Abyei”
- Russian: “Абьей (район)”
- Russian: “Абьей”
- Russian: “район Абьей”
- Serbian: “Абјеј”
- Serbian: “Регион Абјеј”
- Spanish: “Abyei”
- Swedish: “Abyei”
- Ukrainian: “Аб’єй (регіон)”
- Ukrainian: “Аб’єй”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Аб’єй”
- Western Panjabi: “ابیئی”
- Zulu: “Abyei Area”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Nyendachuar and Nainaya.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Abyei Hospital and Qarn Yayal.
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