Before the independence of South Sudan from Sudan, the 10 states of Southern Sudan were divided into districts. These districts have been superseded by...

South Sudan (/suːˈdɑːn, -ˈdæn/), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in eastern Central Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia...

administrative areas of South Sudan are divided into 79 counties. Before the independence of South Sudan from Sudan, the Counties were known as Districts. Upon Independence...

independence of South Sudan, the States of Sudan were subdivided into 133 districts. With the adoption of the Interim National Constitution of Sudan and the...

The South Sudanese Civil War was a multi-sided civil war in South Sudan between forces of the government and opposition forces. In December 2013, President...

A civil war between two rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary...

Ethnic violence in South Sudan has a long history among South Sudan's varied ethnic groups. South Sudan has 64 tribes with the largest being the Dinka...

South Sudan is home to around 60 indigenous ethnic groups and 80 linguistic partitions among a 2021 population of around 11 million. Historically, most...

countries of Sudan and South Sudan in 2012 over oil-rich regions between South Sudan's Unity and Sudan's South Kordofan states. South Sudan invaded and...

Libya to the northwest, South Sudan to the south, and the Red Sea to the east. It has a population of 45.7 million people as of 2022 and occupies 1,886...