Everything you need to know about South Sudan
Explore South Sudan from Juba and the White Nile to the Sudd, Equatoria’s highlands and the Boma–Badingilo migration landscape. Learn ten states and two administrative areas, place sixteen cities and towns, follow six rivers, discover twelve sights and read ten illustrated topics with eighty facts questions.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of South Sudan
The White Nile, seasonal wetlands and southern mountain ranges.
Know the shape of the country
Three maps connect ten states and two administrative areas, sixteen cities and towns, and six complete named river courses. The White Nile continues beyond South Sudan from Lake Albert in Uganda to Khartoum in Sudan. Zoom out to follow it.
Places worth visiting
Essential · Architecture
Juba Bridge
The older bridge links Juba’s riverbanks and records the role of the Nile in transport. It is a separate crossing from the Freedom Bridge opened in 2022.
Locate twelve heritage, river and landscape locations. Boma and Badingilo are parts of one World Heritage property; broad landscapes use representative pins. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
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When you have had your fill of South Sudan, the countries in white have a guide like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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