Greater Upper Nile
The Greater Upper Nile is a region of northeastern South Sudan. It is named for the White Nile, a tributary of the Nile River in North and East Africa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Malakal and Boma National Park.
Malakal
Malakal was a city in South Sudan. Largely destroyed during fighting between 2011-2015, relatively little remains other than looted and vandalised ruins, very limited infrastructure and a 45,000 person strong United Nations refugee camp northeast of the former city.Boma National Park
Photo: USAID Africa Bureau, Public domain.
Boma National Park is a protected area in eastern South Sudan near the Ethiopian border. It was established in 1977 and covers 22,800 km2 of grasslands and floodplains.
Greater Upper Nile
- Type: Region with 4,200,000 residents
- Description: region in South Sudan
- Category: region of South Sudan
- Location: South Sudan, Central Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Greater Upper Nile” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة أعالي النيل”
- Catalan: “Gran Nil Superior”
- Catalan: “Greater Upper Nile”
- Catalan: “Regió del Nil Superior”
- Chinese: “上尼罗河地区”
- Chinese: “大上尼罗大区”
- Croatian: “Veliki Gornji Nil”
- Danish: “Greater Upper Nile”
- Dimli (individual language): “Nilo Corêno Gırd”
- Dutch: “Greater Upper Nile”
- Esperanto: “Granda Supra Nilo”
- French: “Nil Supérieur”
- Georgian: “ზემო ნილოსი (რეგიონი)”
- Georgian: “ზემო ნილოსი”
- Hebrew: “הנילוס העליון הגדול”
- Indonesian: “Nil Hulu Raya”
- Italian: “Alto Nilo”
- Japanese: “上ナイル地方”
- Korean: “상나일 지방”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinio Nilo provincija”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinis Nilas”
- Macedonian: “Голем Горен Нил”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Greater Upper Nile”
- Norwegian: “Greater Upper Nile”
- Persian: “نیل بالایی بزرگ”
- Portuguese: “Grande Nilo Superior”
- Russian: “Большой Верхний Нил”
- Spanish: “Gran Alto Nilo”
- Swahili: “Greater Upper Nile”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Nile ya Juu”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Верхній Ніл”
- Urdu: “عظیم بالائی نیل”
- Vietnamese: “Đại Thượng Nin”
- Zulu: “Greater Upper Nile”
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