Abyei
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sudan Envoy, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 20,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Ab’ey”, “Abyei Town”, “Abyey”, “Abyēy”, and “Chief Kwai Arab”
Abyei
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: West Kordofan State, Kurdufan, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
9.5964° or 9° 35′ 47″ northLongitude
28.4403° or 28° 26′ 25″ eastPopulation
20,000Elevation
400 metres (1,312 feet)United Nations Location Code
SD ABYOpen location code
6GXCHCWR+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 238610118OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Abyei” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أبيي”
- Arabic: “مدينة أبيي”
- Bulgarian: “Абией”
- Catalan: “Abyei”
- Chinese: “Abyei”
- Chinese: “أبيي”
- Chinese: “艾卜耶”
- Chinese: “阿卜耶伊”
- Czech: “Abyei”
- Czech: “Oblast Abyei”
- Danish: “Abyei (by)”
- Danish: “Abyei”
- Dutch: “Abyei”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة ابيى”
- French: “Abiyé (ville)”
- French: “Abiyé”
- French: “Abyei (ville)”
- German: “Abjei”
- German: “Abyei”
- Hebrew: “אביי”
- Irish: “Abyei”
- Italian: “Abyei”
- Japanese: “アビエイ”
- Japanese: “アビエイ町”
- Korean: “아비에이”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abyei”
- Persian: “ابی”
- Persian: “ابیه (شهر)”
- Polish: “Abyei”
- Russian: “Abyei”
- Russian: “Абиеи”
- Russian: “Абией”
- Russian: “Абье”
- Russian: “Абьеи”
- Russian: “Абьей”
- Serbian: “Абјеј”
- Spanish: “Abyei”
- Turkish: “Abyei”
- Ukrainian: “Аб’єй (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Аб’єй”
- Ukrainian: “Абєй”
- Ukrainian: “Абьей”
- Western Panjabi: “ابیئی”
- Zulu: “Abyei (idolobha)”
- Zulu: “Abyei”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Abyei”. Photo: Sudan Envoy, CC BY 2.0.