Upper Nile

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Upper Nile
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Basic data
Country South Sudan
Capital Malacal
surface 77,773 km²
Residents 1,212,979 (2008 census)
density 16 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 SS-NU
politics
governor Simon Kun Puoch

Coordinates: 9 ° 31 '  N , 31 ° 44'  E

Upper Nile ( German  Obernil ) is the northernmost state in South Sudan .

It has an area of ​​77,773 km² and, according to the official results of the 2008 census, around 964,000 inhabitants. Its capital is Malakal .

geography

The White Nile flows through the state from south-west to north, meeting the Sobat River halfway through the state, which flows north-west from the south-east.

In the state is the city of Kodok , which was the scene of the Faschoda crisis . Other larger towns are Nasir , Maiwut , Melut and Renk .

Upper Nile has oil deposits belonging to the Melut Basin . Since 2006, oil has been exported from here via Port Sudan .

history

From 1919 to 1976 Upper Nile was a province of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and then the independent Republic of Sudan and also included the present-day states of Jonglei and Unity . In 1976, the Junqali province, which corresponds to today's state of Jonglei, was split off, so that the province only consisted of the area of ​​today's states of Upper Nile and Unity. In 1991 the province was converted into a state and the borders from 1919 to 1976 were restored. On February 14, 1994, the states of Junqali and al-Wahda (now Unity) were split off. Since its independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, Upper Nile has been a federal state of South Sudan.

administration

Like the other states of South Sudan, the Upper Nile is divided into counties. Further administrative units under the counties are Payams and, among them, Bomas. A county commissioner, appointed by the state governor in agreement with the president, presides over the counties. In Upper Nile these are:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Central Bureau of Statistics / Southern Sudan Center for Census Statistics and Evaluation: 5th Sudan Population and Housing Census - 2008 ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 415 kB) Table: T02 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / southsudaninfo.net
  2. ↑ Melut Basin Oil Project, Sudan at hidrocarbons-technology.com, accessed December 4, 2011.
  3. ↑ www.statoids.com: Historical overview of the Sudanese states
  4. ^ Upper Nile . UNHCR, South Sudan. Retrieved July 18, 2011.