Bentiu
Bentiu is the capital of Unity State in South Sudan, on the southern bank of the Bahr el Ghazal River in the Greater Upper Nile region. It is a frontier oil town rebuilding after repeated cycles of war, ethnic violence, and catastrophic flooding, and it sits at the heart of one of the most severe ongoing humanitarian crises in the world.- City with about 6,500 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 400 metres (1,300 feet)
- Description: town in South Sudan; capital of Unity State
- Also known as“Bantiu”“Bantiyo”“Bentiu, South Sudan”“Bentiu, Unity State”“Bëntiw”“Kilwal”“Meshra‘ Bentiu”
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Latitude
9.2481° or 9° 14′ 53″ north
Longitude
29.7977° or 29° 47′ 52″ east
Open location code
6GXF6QXX+63
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Bentiu” goes by many names.
በንቲዩAmharic
بانتيوArabic
BentiuAsturian
BentiuAzerbaijani
BentiuBasque
বেন্টিউBengali
বেন্তিউBengali
BentiuCatalan
BentiuCebuano
本提乌Chinese
本提烏Chinese
班提烏Chinese
BentiuDanish
BentiuDutch
بانتيوEgyptian Arabic
BentiuFinnish
ბენტიუGeorgian
ΜπέντιουGreek
બેન્ટિઉGujarati
BentiuHausa
בנטיוHebrew
बेंटिउHindi
बेंटियूHindi
BentiuIndonesian
BentiuItalian
ベンティーウJapanese
ベンティウJapanese
BentiuJavanese
ಬೆಂಟಿಯುKannada
БентиуKazakh
БентиуKirghiz
벤티우Korean
BantioLatvian
BantioLithuanian
BentiuMalay
बेंटिऊMarathi
BentiuNorwegian Bokmål
BentiuOccitan (post 1500)
BentiuOromo
ਬੇਂਟਿਊPanjabi
بنتیوPersian
BantiuPolish
BentiuPolish
بنتیوPushto
BentiuRomanian
БантиоRussian
БентиуRussian
БентијуSerbian
بانتيوSerbian
බෙන්ටියුSinhala
BentiuSomali
بنتیوSouth Azerbaijani
BentiuSwahili
BentiuSwedish
BentiuTagalog
БентиуTajik
பேன்டியுTamil
БентиуTatar
బెంటియూTelugu
เขตเบตูThai
BentiuTurkish
БантіоUkrainian
БентіуUkrainian
بانتیوUrdu
BentiuUzbek
BentiuVietnamese
BentiuWaray (Philippines)
BentiuZulu
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