South Sudan
Bahr el Ghazal
Western Bahr al Ghazal

Wau

Wau is a town, locally referred to as a city, in northwestern on the western bank of the . It is the capital of region in South Sudan.
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  • Type: City with 136,000 residents
  • Description: city in northwestern South Sudan
  • Also known as: “Wau, South Sudan”, “Waw, South Sudan”, “Wow”, “Wow, South Sudan”, and “واو”

Wau

Latitude
7.7001° or 7° 42′ 1″ north
Longitude
27.9909° or 27° 59′ 27″ east
Population
136,000
Elevation
440 metres (1,444 feet)
IATA airport code
WUU
United Nations Location Code
SS WUU
Open location code
6GV9PX2R+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 237193709
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
363885
Wiki­data ID
Q276534
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wau”
  • Arabic: “Wāw”
  • Arabic: “مدينة واو”
  • Arabic: “واو”
  • Armenian: “Վաու”
  • Belarusian: “Вау”
  • Bengali: “ওউ, দক্ষিন সুদান”
  • Bulgarian: “Уау”
  • Catalan: “Wau”
  • Cebuano: “Wau (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Wau”
  • Chinese: “瓦乌”
  • Chinese: “瓦烏”
  • Czech: “Wau”
  • Danish: “Wau”
  • Danish: “Waw”
  • Dutch: “Wau”
  • Esperanto: “Vav”
  • Estonian: “Wau”
  • Estonian: “Wāw”
  • Finnish: “Wau”
  • French: “Ouaou”
  • French: “Waou”
  • French: “Wau”
  • Galician: “Wau, Sudán do Sur”
  • Galician: “Wau”
  • Georgian: “ვაუ”
  • German: “Wau”
  • German: “Waw”
  • Greek: “Ουάου”
  • Gujarati: “વાઉ, સાઉથ સુદાન”
  • Hausa: “Wau, Sudan ta Kudu”
  • Hebrew: “ואו”
  • Hindi: “वाउ”
  • Indonesian: “Wau, Sudan Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Wau”
  • Irish: “Wau”
  • Italian: “Wau”
  • Italian: “Waw”
  • Italian: “Wāw”
  • Japanese: “ワーウ”
  • Kannada: “ವಾವ್, ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಸುಡಾನ್”
  • Korean: “와우”
  • Latvian: “Vau, Dienvidsudāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Vau”
  • Malay: “Wau, Sudan Selatan”
  • Malay: “Wau”
  • Marathi: “वाऊ, साऊथ सुदान”
  • Mingrelian: “ვაუ”
  • Nepali: “वाउ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wau”
  • Norwegian: “Wau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wau”
  • Polish: “Wau”
  • Portuguese: “Uau”
  • Portuguese: “Wau”
  • Romanian: “Wau, Sudanul de Sud”
  • Russian: “Вау”
  • Rusyn: “Вау (Южный Судан)”
  • Rusyn: “Вау”
  • Serbian: “Vav”
  • Serbian: “Вав”
  • Serbian: “Вау”
  • Serbian: “واو”
  • Sinhala: “වෝ, දකුණු සුඩානය”
  • Slovenian: “Vav”
  • Slovenian: “Waw”
  • Slovenian: “واو”
  • Spanish: “Wau”
  • Swedish: “Wau”
  • Tamil: “வாவு, தெற்கு சூடான்”
  • Telugu: “వవ్”
  • Turkish: “Wau, Güney Sudan”
  • Turkish: “Wau”
  • Ukrainian: “Вау”
  • Urdu: “واو، جنوبی سوڈان”
  • Venetian: “Wau”
  • Vietnamese: “Wau, Nam Sudan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wau, Salatan nga Sudan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wau, South Sudan”
  • Zulu: “Wau, Ningizimu Sudan”

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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 Wikipedia page “Wau”. Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.