Rumbek
Sign in to savethumb|Road alongside Rumbek Airstrip thumb
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cached 204h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Rumbek
- Region
- Lakes البحيرات
- Country
- South Sudan جنوب السودان
- Population
- 32,083
- Timezone
- Africa/Juba
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Rumbek
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Cattle Herders at Cattle Camp in Rumbek, South Sudan.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- A cattle camp in Rumbek
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Sudan
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in South Sudan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bahr el Ghazal
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Lakes State
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Rumbek Centre County
- Settlement.founder
- Alphonse de Malzac (1858)
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 32100 Estimate
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Get in
The small Rumbek Airport is served mostly by charter flights. Golden Wings Aviation offers flights from Khartoum and Juba several times a week.
The A43 road between Juba and Wau passes by here, most of it is unpaved.
Stay safe
See the warning on the South Sudan article for information on the security situation.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Location
- Overview
- Population
- Transportation
- Climate
- Points of interest
- Schools in Rumbek
- Community development
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Road alongside Rumbek Airstrip thumb
Rumbek () is the capital of Lakes State in the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan. For a period from 2005, it also served as the administrative capital of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rumbek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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