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Duk is a county in Jonglei, South Sudan. [1] In May 2016, it was divided into three counties which were Duk Padiet, Duk Payuel, and Panyang. [ 2 ] In 2017, the governor of Jonglei State added Duk Pagaak County, totaling four counties in former Duk County.
Jonglei state comprises nine counties: Bor, Akobo, Ayod, Uror, Duk, Nyirol, Pigi, Twic East, and Fangak. Jonglei State is the largest state by area before reorganisation, with an area of approximately 122,581 km 2, [2] as well as the most populous according to the 2008 census conducted in present-day South Sudan's second period of autonomy. The ...
Lith Payam borders on Kongor Payam, Pibor County, Duk County, and the White Nile. Lith Payam headquarters is located at Wernyol City. Two clans known as Abek and Adhiok inhab Lith Payam. Adhiok society is a southern Sudanese community found in Lith Payam (shared by Adhiok and Abek) in Twich-East County and in Jonglei state of South Sudan.
Before the independence of South Sudan from Sudan, the Counties were known as Districts. Upon Independence in 2011, the 10 states of South Sudan were divided into 86 counties. More counties were established during the South Sudanese Civil War , when the country increased to 32 states, and the number of counties exceeded 100.
South Sudan is a landlocked country and borders – clockwise – Sudan from the north, Ethiopia from the east, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the south and the Central African Republic from the west. Until July 9, 2011, it was part of Sudan, then the largest country in Africa before a referendum took place in ...
Countries by land border length Antarctica and countries in purple are those without any land border. This list gives the number of distinct land borders of each country or territory, as well as the neighboring countries and territories. The length of each border is included, as is the total length of each country's or territory's borders. [1]
In 1909–1910, people started settling along the northern border of the Bor-Duk districts, with the aim of separating the Nuer and Dinka communities, who had formerly intermingled. [3] It is bordered by Twic East and Duk counties to the north, Yirol East County and Awerial County of Lakes State to the west, Pibor to the east, Central and ...
A map of the Ilemi Triangle showing 1938 "red line" or "Wakefield Line", 1947 "blue line" and Sudan's 1950 patrol line (green). To the southeast of the Ilemi triangle, Ethiopian emperor Menelik laid claim to Lake Turkana and proposed a boundary with the British to run from the southern end of the lake eastward to the Indian Ocean, which was shifted northward when the British and Ethiopian ...