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South Sudan is a country in . The world’s youngest country, it was a part of until it became an independent country on 9 July 2011.
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is the largest city and capital of South Sudan. 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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The is a region of northeastern South Sudan. It is named for the , a tributary of the Nile River in and .

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.

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is the southernmost region of South Sudan, along the upper reaches of the and the border between South Sudan, , , and the . , the national capital and the largest city in South Sudan, is located in .

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The is a region of northwestern South Sudan. Its name came from the river . The name translates as "sea of gazelles" from Arabic.

South Sudan

Latitude of center
7.8699° or 7° 52′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
29.6668° or 29° 40′ 0″ east
Population
8,260,000
Area
644,329 km² (248,777 miles²)
Elevation
406 metres (1,332 feet)
Capital
Currency
Pound (SSP)
Phone code
.ss
Internet domain
211
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
7909807
Wiki­data ID
Q958
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“South Sudan” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Аладатәи Судан”
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Аладатәи Судан”
  • Adyghe: “Къыблэ Судан”
  • Afrikaans: “Suid-Soedan”
  • Albanian: “Sudani i Jugut”
  • Amharic: “ደቡብ ሱዳን”
  • Amis: “South sudan”
  • Angika: “दक्षिण सूडान”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية جنوب السودان”
  • Arabic: “جنوب السودان”
  • Aragonese: “Sudán d’o Sud”
  • Armenian: “Հարավային Սուդան”
  • Assamese: “দক্ষিণ চুডান”
  • Asturian: “Sudán del Sur”
  • Atayal: “South sudan”
  • Avaric: “Югалъулаб Судан”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cənubi Sudan”
  • Balinese: “Sudan Kelod”
  • Balinese: “Sudan Selatan”
  • Bambara: “Worodugu Soudan”
  • Bambara: “Worodugu Sudan”
  • Banjar: “Sudan Salatan”
  • Bashkir: “Көньяҡ Судан”
  • Basque: “Hego Sudan”
  • Bavarian: “Sidsudan”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвы Судан”
  • Bengali: “এসএসডি”
  • Bengali: “দক্ষিণ সুদান প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bengali: “দক্ষিণ সুদান”
  • Betawi: “Sudan Kidul”
  • Bhojpuri: “दक्खिन सूडान”
  • Bislama: “Saot Sudan”
  • Bosnian: “Južni Sudan”
  • Breton: “Soudan ar Su”
  • Breton: “Susoudan”
  • Bulgarian: “Южен Судан”
  • Burmese: “တောင် ဆူဒန်”
  • Burmese: “တောင်ဆူဒန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “República del Sudan del Sud”
  • Catalan: “Sudan del Sud”
  • Cebuano: “Habagatang Sudan”
  • Central Bikol: “Habagatan Sudan”
  • Central Kurdish: “سوودانی باشوور”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆماری سوودانی باشوور”
  • Chavacano: “Sudán del Sur”
  • Chechen: “Къилба Судан”
  • Chinese: “Lâm Sudan”
  • Chinese: “南苏丹 / 南蘇丹”
  • Chinese: “南苏丹”
  • Chinese: “南苏丹共和国”
  • Chinese: “南蘇丹”
  • Chuvash: “Кăнтăр Судан”
  • Cornish: “Soudan Soth”
  • Cornish: “Sudan Dyghow”
  • Corsican: “Republica di u Sudan di u Sudu”
  • Corsican: “Ripublica di u Sudan di u Sudu”
  • Corsican: “Sudan di u Sudu”
  • Corsican: “Sudu Sudan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Cenübiy Sudan”
  • Croatian: “Južni Sudan”
  • Czech: “Jižní Súdán”
  • Dagbani: “South sudan”
  • Dagbani: “South Sudan”
  • Danish: “Sydsudan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sudanê Veroci”
  • Dinka: “Cuëny Thudän”
  • Dinka: “Paguot Thudän”
  • Dotyali: “दक्खिन सुडान”
  • Dotyali: “दक्षिणी सुडान”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Zuid-Soedan”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Zuid-Sudan”
  • Dutch: “SS”
  • Dutch: “SSD”
  • Dutch: “Zuid-Soedan”
  • Dutch: “Zuid-Sudan”
  • Dzongkha: “སཱའུཐ་ སུ་ཌཱན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кечывалвел Судан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جنوب السودان”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Sud-Sudano”
  • Esperanto: “Sud-Sudano”
  • Estonian: “Lõuna-Sudaan”
  • Estonian: “Lõuna-Sudaani Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Anyiehe Sudã”
  • Ewe: “Anyiehe Sudan nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Sudán del Sul”
  • Farefare: “South Sudan”
  • Faroese: “Suðursudan”
  • Fiji Hindi: “South Sudan”
  • Finnish: “Etelä-Sudan”
  • Finnish: “Etelä-Sudanin tasavalta”
  • French: “République du Soudan du Sud”
  • French: “Soudan du Sud”
  • French: “Soudan-du-Sud”
  • French: “Sud Soudan”
  • French: “Sud-Soudan”
  • Gagauz: “Üülen Sudan”
  • Galician: “O Sudán do Sur”
  • Galician: “Sudán do Sur”
  • Ganda: “South Sudan”
  • Georgian: “სამხრეთ სუდანი”
  • Georgian: “სამხრეთი სუდანი”
  • German: “Republik Südsudan”
  • German: “Südsudan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of South Sudan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “South Sudan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Southern Sudan”
  • Gilaki: “نسايي سۊدان”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία του Νότιου Σουδάν”
  • Greek: “Νότιο Σουδάν”
  • Guarani: “Yvy Sudã”
  • Guarani: “Yvy Sundã”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Soudan di Sid”
  • Gujarati: “દક્ષિણ સુદાન”
  • Gujarati: “દક્ષિણ સૂડાન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nàm Sudan”
  • Hausa: “Sudan ta Kudu”
  • Hebrew: “דרום סודאן”
  • Hebrew: “דרום סודן”
  • Hindi: “दक्षिण सूडान”
  • Hungarian: “Dél-Szudán”
  • Hungarian: “Dél-szudáni Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Suður-Súdan”
  • Ido: “Sud-Sudan”
  • Igbo: “South Sudan”
  • Iloko: “Abagatan a Sudan”
  • Inari Sami: “Maadâ-Sudan täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Maadâ-Sudan”
  • Indonesian: “Sudan Selatan”
  • Interlingua: “Sudan del Sud”
  • Interlingue: “Sud-Sudan”
  • Irish: “an tSúdáin Theas”
  • Irish: “An tSúdáin Theas”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Sud Sudan”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Sudan del Sud”
  • Italian: “Sud Sudan”
  • Italian: “Sudan del Sud”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Sout Sudan”
  • Japanese: “南スーダン”
  • Japanese: “南スーダン共和国”
  • Javanese: “Sudan Kidul”
  • Kabiyè: “Sudaanɩ Hadɛ Kiŋ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kujalleqsudan”
  • Kannada: “ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಸುಡಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಸೂಡಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qubla Sudan”
  • Kashmiri: “جنوبی سوڈان”
  • Kashubian: “Pôłniowi Sùdan”
  • Kashubian: “Repùblika Pôłniowego Sùdanu”
  • Kazakh: “Оңтүстік Судан”
  • Khmer: “ស៊ូដង់ខាងត្បូង”
  • Khmer: “ស៊ូដង់​ខាង​ត្បូង”
  • Kikuyu: “Sũdana ya Kuthini”
  • Kinaray-A: “Nabagatnan nga Sudan”
  • Kinaray-A: “Sudan Nabagatnan”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Sudani y’Amajyepfo”
  • Kirghiz: “Түштүк Судан”
  • Kölsch: “Südsudan”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Лунвыв Судан”
  • Komi: “Лунвыв Судан”
  • Kongo: “Sudan ya Sudi”
  • Korean: “남수단”
  • Kotava: “Geesudana”
  • Kurdish: “Sûdana Başûr”
  • Ladin: “Sudan dl Sud”
  • Ladino: “Sudan del Sud”
  • Lak: “Кьилвалул Судан”
  • Lao: “ຊູດານໃຕ້”
  • Latin: “Sudania Australis”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidsudāna”
  • Ligurian: “Sudan do Sud”
  • Limburgan: “Zuid-Soedan”
  • Lingala: “Sudani ya Sidi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sudan Sude”
  • Literary Chinese: “南蘇丹”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietų Sudanas”
  • Livvi: “Suvi Sudan”
  • Lombard: “Süd Sudan”
  • Low German: “Süüdsudan”
  • Low German: “Zuudsoedan”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Pódpołdnjowy Sudan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Südsudan”
  • Macedonian: “Јужен Судан”
  • Madurese: “Sudan Lao‘”
  • Madurese: “Sudan Lao’”
  • Malagasy: “Sodàna Atsimo”
  • Malay: “Sudan Selatan”
  • Malayalam: “ദക്ഷിണ സുഡാൻ”
  • Maltese: “is-Sudan t’Isfel”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tas-Sudan t’Isfel”
  • Maltese: “Sudan t’Isfel”
  • Manipuri: “ꯈꯥ ꯁꯨꯗꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Yn Toodaan Yiass”
  • Maori: “Hūtāne-ki-te-tonga”
  • Marathi: “दक्षिण सुदान”
  • Mazanderani: “جنوبی سودان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nàng Sudan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm Sudan”
  • Minangkabau: “Sudan Selatan”
  • Mingrelian: “ობჟათე სუდანი”
  • Mirandese: “Sudan de l Sul”
  • Moksha: “Лямбеширень Судан”
  • Mongolian: “Өмнөд Судан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جنوب السودان”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جنوب سودان”
  • Nauru: “South Sudan”
  • Nepali: “दक्षिण सुडान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Süüdsudaan”
  • Northern Luri: “سوٙدان ھارگە”
  • Northern Sami: “Lulli-Sudan dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Lulli-Sudan”
  • Northern Sami: “Máttasudan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Sør-Sudan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør-Sudan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sør-Sudan”
  • Norwegian: “Republikken Sør-Sudan”
  • Norwegian: “Sør-Sudan”
  • Novial: “Sud Sudan”
  • Obolo: “Sudan Osiki”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica del Sodan del Sud”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sodan del Sud”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܝܡܢ ܣܘܕܐܢ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܝܡܢܐ ܕܣܘܕܐܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþsudan”
  • Oriya: “ଦକ୍ଷିଣ ସୁଦାନ”
  • Oromo: “Sudaan Kibbaa”
  • Ossetian: “Хуссар Судан”
  • Pampanga: “Mauling Sudan”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੱਖਣ ਸੁਡਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੱਖਣੀ ਸੁਡਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੱਖਣੀ ਸੂਡਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Sur Sudan”
  • Persian: “جمهوری سودان جنوبی”
  • Persian: “سودان جنوبی”
  • Piemontese: “Sud Sudan”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Sowth Sudan”
  • Polish: “Sudan Południowy”
  • Portuguese: “República do Sudão do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “ss”
  • Portuguese: “SSD”
  • Portuguese: “Sudão do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Sul do Sudão”
  • Pushto: “سويلي سوډان”
  • Pushto: “سوېلي سوډان”
  • Quechua: “Sudán del Sur”
  • Quechua: “Urin Sudan”
  • Quechua: “Urin Suthan”
  • Rakhine: “တောင်ဆူဒန် သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Sudanul de Sud”
  • Romansh: “Sudan dal Sid”
  • Russia Buriat: “Урда Судан”
  • Russian: “Республика Южный Судан”
  • Russian: “Южный Судан”
  • Sakizaya: “South sudan”
  • Samogitian: “Pėitū Sudans”
  • Sango: “Sudäan-Mbongo”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱧᱮ ᱥᱩᱫᱟᱱ”
  • Santali: “ᱮᱛᱚᱢ ᱥᱩᱫᱟᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Repùblica de su Sudan de su Sud”
  • Sardinian: “Sudan de su Sud”
  • Sardinian: “Sudan Meridionali”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Suud-Sudan”
  • Scots: “Sooth Sudan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sudàn a Deas”
  • Serbian: “Južni Sudan”
  • Serbian: “Јужни Судан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Južni Sudan”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသူႇတၼ်ႇၸၢၼ်း”
  • Shona: “South Sudan”
  • Shona: “Sudhani Chamhembe”
  • Sicilian: “Ripùbblica dû Sudan dû Sud”
  • Sicilian: “Ripùbbrica dû Sudan dû Sud”
  • Sicilian: “Sudan dû Sud”
  • Silesian: “Połedńowy Sudan”
  • Sindhi: “ڏکڻ سوڊان”
  • Sinhala: “දකුණු සුඩානය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Saujj-Sudaan tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Saujj-Sudaan”
  • Slovak: “Juhosudánska republika”
  • Slovak: “Južný Sudán”
  • Slovenian: “Južni Sudan”
  • Somali: “Koonfur Suudaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جنوبی سودان”
  • Southern Sotho: “Sudan Borwa”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Sudan del Sur”
  • Spanish: “República de Sudán del Sur”
  • Spanish: “Sudan del Sur”
  • Spanish: “Sudán del Sur”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵏⵥⵓⵍ ⵏ ⵙⵓⴷⴰⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Sudan Kidul”
  • Swahili: “Sudan Kusini”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Sydsudan”
  • Swedish: “Sydsudan”
  • Swiss German: “Südsudan”
  • Tagalog: “Timog Sudan”
  • Tajik: “Судони Ҷанубӣ”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு சூடான்”
  • Taroko: “South Sudan”
  • Tatar: “Көньяк Судан”
  • Telugu: “దక్షిణ సూడాన్”
  • Thai: “ซูดานใต้”
  • Thai: “ประเทศซูดานใต้”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเซาท์ซูดาน”
  • Tigrinya: “ደቡብ ሱዳን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sūtani fakatonga”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Südsudan”
  • Tsonga: “Sudan-Dzonga”
  • Tumbuka: “South Sudan”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “جنوب السودان”
  • Turkish: “Güney Sudan”
  • Turkmen: “Günorta Sudan”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Sudan A̱tak”
  • Tyap: “Sudan A̱tak”
  • Udmurt: “Лымшор Судан”
  • Uighur: “جەنۇبىي سۇدان”
  • Ukrainian: “Південний Судан”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Південний Судан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Južny Sudan”
  • Urdu: “جمہوریہ جنوبی سوڈان”
  • Urdu: “جنوبی سوڈان”
  • Uzbek: “Janubiy Sudan”
  • Venetian: “Sud Sudan”
  • Venetian: “Sudan del Sud”
  • Veps: “Suvisudan”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Nam Sudan”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Nam Sudan”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Sudan”
  • Volapük: “Sulüda-Sudän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salatan nga Sudan”
  • Welsh: “De Sudan”
  • Welsh: “De Swdan”
  • Western Armenian: “Հարաւային Սուտան”
  • Western Frisian: “Sûd-Soedan”
  • Western Frisian: “Súd-Sûdan”
  • Western Mari: “Кечӹвӓлвел Судан”
  • Western Panjabi: “جنوبی سوڈان”
  • Wolof: “Sudaan gu Bëj-saalum”
  • Wolof: “Sudaŋ di Sid”
  • Wu Chinese: “南蘇丹”
  • Yakut: “Соҕуруу Судаан”
  • Yakut: “Соҕуруу Судан”
  • Yiddish: “דרום סודאן”
  • Yiddish: “דרום־סודאַן”
  • Yoruba: “Gúúsù Sudan”
  • Yue Chinese: “南蘇丹”
  • Zeeuws: “Zuud-Soedan”
  • Zhuang: “Namz Sudan”
  • Zulu: “i-South Sudan”
  • Zulu: “INingizimu Sudan”
  • Zulu: “ISudan yaseNingizimu”
  • “ma Sato Sutan”
  • “ma Sutan anpa”
  • “Pėitū Sodans”
  • “SS”
  • “SSD”
  • “Sudan d’u Sud”
  • “Tsintlan Sodan”
  • “Tsintlan Sodan Axkayotl”
  • “दक्खिन सूडान”

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