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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.
In 1927, Austrian photographer and travel writer Hugo Bernatzik travelled by boat and his own automobile to southern Sudan. He returned with 1,400 photographs and 30,000 ft. of cinema film [17] and published his impressions and ethnographic pictures of Shilluk, Nuer and Nuba people in 1930 in a popular travelogue, first in German and later in English titled Gari Gari: The Call of the African ...
Wadi Howar used to be a tributary of the Nile during the African humid period, today it is a wadi. The national park that encompasses it contains Meidob volcanic field, Jebel Rahib hills, paleo lakes, and dunes. The area is home to the Dorcas gazelle, ostrich, and Barbary sheep. The park has already been listed on the tentative list in 2004.
The capital of the state, Bor, became an administrative centre under the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899 -1956) for the Dinka Bor.It was in Malek, a small settlement, about 19 kilometres (12 mi), south of Bor that the first modern Christian mission in present-day South Sudan was established by Archibald Shaw in December 1905. [4]
A map of World Heritage Sites in Africa as of 2016, each designated by a dot 0 sites 1–2 sites 3–4 sites 5–6 sites 7–8 sites 9 sites The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated 147 World Heritage Sites in Africa.
One of the geographically largest countries in Africa with about 43 million people, [1] numerous ethnic groups and more than 100 native languages and dialects, [2] Sudan's history is rich with a diverse cultural and documentary heritage that has been preserved in numerous private and public collections all over the country. These collections ...
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