File:NSRW_Africa_Dinka.png · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Dinka people
Sign in to saveAlso known as Denkawi, Jang, Jango, Jiang, Jieng, Jiengge, Muonyjang, Dinka
Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan
Key facts
- South sudan
- 4.5 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Subclass of
- Nilotic peoples
- Native language
- Dinka
- Population
- 4637302
- Image
- NSRW Africa Dinka.png
Show 3 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Dinka people
- Commons category
- Dinka people
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
via Wikidata · CC0
~26 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The Dinka people (Dinka: Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ) are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan. The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Mangalla-Bor to Renk, in the region of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (two out of three provinces that were formerly part of southern Sudan), and the Abyei area of the Ngok Dinka in South Sudan.
They number around 4.5 million, according to the 2008 Sudan census, constituting about 40% of the population of that country and the largest ethnic group in South Sudan. The Dinka refer to themselves as Muonyjang (singular) and jieng (plural).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dinka people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.