Flag of South Sudan

South Sudan is a state in Africa with a population of 10.6 million (2012) and an area of 644,329 km2.

It is located between Sudan in the south of Kordofan, which it seceded in 2011, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, where the Great Lakes plateau begins, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic. The country is a vast basin invaded by marshes and traversed by the Nile and its complicated network of tributaries that form the Land of rivers, where the Bahr-el-Ghazal river system develops.