South Sudan
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- SS
- ISO alpha-3
- SSD
- ISO numeric
- 728
- FIPS 10-4
- OD
- GeoNames ID
- 7909807
Key facts
- Capital
- Juba
- Area
- 644,329 km²
- Population
- 8,260,490
- Currency
- Pound (SSP)
- Calling code
- +211
- Top-level domain
- .ss
- Official languages
- en
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 7.5
- Longitude
- 30
- Min latitude
- 3.4902015180000916
- Min longitude
- 24.121555623000063
- Max latitude
- 12.216154684000088
- Max longitude
- 35.92083540900012
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/SS?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 644329,
"capital": "Juba",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "SSP",
"iso3_code": "SSD",
"iso_code": "SS",
"name": "South Sudan",
"population": 8260490
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/SS/regions/v1/cities?country=SS/v1/postal-codes?country=SS/v1/timezones?country=SS
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- جنوب السودان
- Chinese
- 南苏丹
- English
- South Sudan
- French
- Soudan du Sud
- German
- Südsudan
- Hindi
- दक्षिण सूडान
- Italian
- Sud Sudan
- Japanese
- 南スーダン共和国
- Korean
- 남수단
- Portuguese
- República do Sudão do Sul
- Russian
- Южный Судан
- Spanish
- Sudán del Sur
- Total language variants
- 110
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Juba | UTC+02:00 | UTC+02:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Jonglei
- Central Equatoria State
- Upper Nile
- Warrap State
- Eastern Equatoria
- Northern Bahr el Ghazal
- Lakes
- Western Equatoria
- Unity
- Western Bahr el Ghazal State
10 of 10 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Juba | 450,000 |
| Winejok | 300,000 |
| Yei | 260,720 |
| Malakal | 160,765 |
| Wau | 127,384 |
| Kuacjok | 78,000 |
| Pajok | 49,000 |
| Gogrial | 44,600 |
| Yambio | 40,382 |
| Aweil | 38,745 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 5,341
- First-level regions
- 10
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 110
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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