Republic of South Sudan
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Young · Wild · Struggling
South Sudan is the world's youngest country, gaining independence on 9 July 2011 after a referendum — it has the world's largest population of the Nile lechwe antelope and one of the largest wildlife migrations on the continent.
Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Wau, Malakal — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Juba sits on the Nile in the world's newest capital — South Sudan became independent in 2011 as the world's newest nation — a frontier city rapidly expanding from a small town into a metropolitan capital in a country where the 2013-2020 civil war displaced 4 million people and created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with the current city reflecting both the aspiration of statehood and the devastation of conflict.
El idioma oficial es inglés, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Sudán del Sur se contacta mediante el código +211. South Sudanese people earned independence after a 22-year second Sudanese civil war that killed 2 million people — one of the 20th century's deadliest conflicts — only to experience a renewed civil war from 2013 that fractured the liberation movement along Dinka-Nuer ethnic lines, revealing that independence from Sudan did not resolve the internal political contestation that the liberation struggle had temporarily united.
Sudán del Sur comparte sus fronteras con Sudán, Etiopía, República Democrática del Congo, República Centroafricana, Kenya, Uganda. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de
La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+03:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.
Wal-wal — a bean and grain stew varying by season and available ingredients — is South Sudan's staple, while the cattle culture of the Nilotic peoples (Dinka, Nuer) creates a food culture where cattle are accumulated as wealth, slaughtered for major celebrations, and whose milk is consumed fresh or fermented in a pastoral nutritional system that has sustained Nile floodplain communities for millennia.
Football is South Sudan's primary sport, with the national team's FIFA membership and international competition representing the normalisation of statehood through sport — but the Dinka and Nuer traditional cattle camp culture produces remarkably tall athletic young men (the tallest average height population in the world by some measures) who have increasingly found pathways to international basketball, including South Sudanese players in the NBA.
The Sudd — a vast swamp on the White Nile covering up to 130,000 square kilometres in South Sudan's interior during wet season — is the world's largest tropical wetland and one of Africa's most important bird habitats, supporting 400 bird species including the shoebill stork and hosting the world's second-largest wildlife migration (after the Serengeti) of white-eared kob, tiang, and Mongalla gazelle, a spectacle barely known outside specialist wildlife circles.