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Juba

Juba is the largest city and capital of . Juba is on banks of the White Nile River. In 2017, it had a population of 525,000 people. The city has been growing quickly since it was named capital of South Sudan in 2005.
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  • Type: City with 372,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Republic of South Sudan
  • Also known as: “Goba” and “Uula”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Embassy of the United States, Juba and St. Theresa Cathedral.

Government office
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
South Sudan–United States relations are the bilateral relations between the and the .

Church
Photo: Lomoraronald, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Theresa’s Cathedral is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church and the cathedral of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Juba in . The cathedral church is located on Unity Avenue in Bahr al Jabal in the district of Kator in the city of Juba.

Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The is composed of two adjacent 252 meter spans over the in Juba, , on the Juba-Nimule Road, and until 2022 provided the only access over the River Nile to .

Juba

Latitude
4.8459° or 4° 50′ 45″ north
Longitude
31.5959° or 31° 35′ 45″ east
Population
372,000
Elevation
518 metres (1,699 feet)
IATA airport code
JUB
United Nations Location Code
SS JUB
Open location code
6GPHRHWW+99
Open­Street­Map ID
node 97922073
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
373303
Wiki­data ID
Q1947
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Juba” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Џуба”
  • Afrikaans: “Joeba”
  • Albanian: “Xhuba”
  • Amharic: “ጁባ”
  • Arabic: “جوبا”
  • Aragonese: “Juba”
  • Armenian: “Ջուբա”
  • Asturian: “Juba”
  • Avaric: “Джуба”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cuba”
  • Balinese: “Juba”
  • Basque: “Juba”
  • Belarusian: “Джуба”
  • Bengali: “জুবা”
  • Bosnian: “Juba”
  • Breton: “Juba”
  • Bulgarian: “Джуба”
  • Burmese: “ဂျူဘာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Juba”
  • Cebuano: “Juba”
  • Central Bikol: “Juba”
  • Central Kurdish: “جووبا”
  • Chechen: “Джуба”
  • Chinese: “Juba”
  • Chinese: “朱巴”
  • Croatian: “Juba, grad”
  • Croatian: “Juba”
  • Czech: “Džuba”
  • Czech: “Juba”
  • Danish: “Juba”
  • Dinka: “Juba”
  • Dutch: “Djoeba”
  • Dutch: “Juba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوبا”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝubao”
  • Estonian: “Juba”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Juba”
  • Finnish: “Juba”
  • French: “Djouba”
  • French: “Juba”
  • Ga: “Juba”
  • Galician: “Juba”
  • Georgian: “ჯუბა”
  • German: “Dschuba”
  • German: “Juba”
  • Greek: “Τζούμπα”
  • Guarani: “Júva”
  • Gujarati: “જુબા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Juba”
  • Hausa: “Juba”
  • Hebrew: “ג’ובה”
  • Hindi: “जुबा”
  • Hungarian: “Dzsúba”
  • Hungarian: “Gyúba”
  • Hungarian: “Juba”
  • Icelandic: “Júba”
  • Ido: “Juba”
  • Inari Sami: “Juba”
  • Indonesian: “Juba, Sudan Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Juba”
  • Interlingua: “Juba”
  • Interlingue: “Juba”
  • Irish: “Juba”
  • Italian: “Giuba”
  • Japanese: “ジュバ”
  • Javanese: “Juba”
  • Kabiyè: “Cuuba”
  • Kannada: “ಜೂಬ”
  • Kazakh: “Джуба”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Джуба”
  • Kongo: “Juba”
  • Korean: “주바”
  • Kotava: “Juba”
  • Kurdish: “Cuba”
  • Latin: “Iuba”
  • Latvian: “Džuba”
  • Latvian: “Džūba”
  • Ligurian: “Juba”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Juba”
  • Lithuanian: “Džuba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dschuba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Juba”
  • Macedonian: “Џуба”
  • Malay: “Juba, Sudan Selatan”
  • Malayalam: “ജൂബ”
  • Maltese: “Ġuba”
  • Marathi: “जुबा”
  • Mazanderani: “جوبا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Juba”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Juba”
  • Minangkabau: “Juba”
  • Mingrelian: “ჯუბა”
  • Moksha: “Джуба”
  • Mongolian: “Жуба”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جوبا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Juba”
  • Northern Sami: “Juba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Juba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Juba”
  • Norwegian: “Juba”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Juba”
  • Ossetian: “Джубæ”
  • Pampanga: “Juba”
  • Panjabi: “ਜੂਬਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Juba”
  • Persian: “جوبا”
  • Piemontese: “Juba”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Juba”
  • Polish: “Dżuba”
  • Portuguese: “Juba”
  • Pushto: “جوبا”
  • Romanian: “Juba”
  • Russian: “Джуба”
  • Sardinian: “Juba”
  • Scots: “Juba”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Juba”
  • Serbian: “Џуба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Džuba”
  • Shona: “Juba”
  • Sicilian: “Juba”
  • Sindhi: “جوبا”
  • Sinhala: “ජුබා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Juba”
  • Slovak: “Džúbá”
  • Slovak: “Juba”
  • Slovenian: “Džuba”
  • Somali: “Juba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جوبا”
  • Spanish: “Yuba”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵊⵓⴱⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Juba, Sudan Kusini”
  • Swahili: “Juba, Sudan”
  • Swedish: “Juba”
  • Tagalog: “Juba, Timog Sudan”
  • Tagalog: “Juba”
  • Tajik: “Ҷуба”
  • Tamil: “யூபா”
  • Telugu: “యూబా”
  • Thai: “จูบา”
  • Turkish: “Cuba”
  • Udmurt: “Джуба”
  • Ukrainian: “Джуба”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Dźuba”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Juba”
  • Urdu: “جوبا”
  • Uzbek: “Juba”
  • Venetian: “Juba”
  • Veps: “Džub”
  • Vietnamese: “Juba, Nam Sudan”
  • Vietnamese: “Juba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Juba”
  • Welsh: “Juba, De Sudan”
  • Welsh: “Juba, De Swdan”
  • Welsh: “Juba”
  • Western Frisian: “Jûba”
  • Western Mari: “Джуба”
  • Western Panjabi: “جوبا”
  • Wu Chinese: “朱巴”
  • Yiddish: “דזשובא”
  • Yue Chinese: “朱巴”
  • Zulu: “Juba, Ningizimu Sudan”
  • “Yuba”

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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 “Juba”. Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.