South Sudan, Africa

This post was last updated by José of onez on Monday, 21 April 2025.

South Sudan is a country on the Sub-Saharan Africa located in the Eastern Africa sub‑region of the Africa continent, member of OPEC+.

Easy learning about South Sudan


South Sudan is located in	Sub-Saharan Africa Eastern Africa Africa Continent
Member of	OPEC+
South Sudan population	11 483 374 inhabitants (2023 UN data)
South Sudan Area	644 329 Km² ( 400 367 sq mi)
Latitude & Longitude	8° 00' N, 30° 00' E
South Sudan Capital city	Juba
Neighbouring countries	Congo Democratic Republic, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda
South Sudan Climate	hot with seasonal rainfall influenced by the annual shift of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone; rainfall heaviest in upland areas of the south and diminishes to the north
Most predominant religion	Christian,
Second most predominant religion	folk religion,
Currency name & code	Pound (SSP)
Internet ccTLD	.ss
South Sudan calling code	211
Passport ranking	92

10 states;
Central Equatoria,
Eastern Equatoria,
Jonglei,
Lakes,
Northern Bahr el Ghazal,
Unity,
Upper Nile,
Warrap,
Western Bahr el Ghazal,
Western Equatoria;
note - in 2015,
the creation of 28 new states was announced and in 2017 four additional states;
following the February 2020 peace agreement,
the country was reportedly again reorganized into the 10 original states,
plus 2 administrative areas,
Pibor and Ruweng,
and 1 special administrative status area,
Abyei (which is disputed between South Sudan and Sudan);
this latest administrative revision has not yet been vetted by the US Board on Geographic Names (2021)

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