Map of South Sudan

South Sudan is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 7.0° N, 30.0° E. South Sudan is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 6 neighbours — Central African Republic, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, South Sudan is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked South Sudan is surrounded by the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

South Sudan covers about 619,745 km² (239,285 sq mi). That makes it the 43rd-largest country in the world by area and the 20th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 34 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 15,786,898, the 75th-largest in the world and the 27th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, South Sudan has an average population density of about 25 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 27th by population and 20th by area.

The seat of government is Juba, and the official currency is the South Sudanese pound (SSP, £), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

South Sudan carries the ISO country codes SS and SSD, dials on the international calling code +211 and uses the .ss internet domain.

South Sudan shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are DR Congo (capital Kinshasa, about 112,832,000 people), Ethiopia (capital Addis Ababa, about 111,652,998 people), Kenya (capital Nairobi, about 53,330,978 people), Sudan (capital Khartoum, about 51,662,000 people), Uganda (capital Kampala, about 45,905,417 people) and Central African Republic (capital Bangui, about 6,470,307 people).

By area, South Sudan is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 4 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 7.0° N, 30.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing South Sudan within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Juba. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

South Sudan lies about 777 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

South Sudan keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the South Sudanese pound (SSP, £).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +211 and websites commonly use the .ss internet domain.

In short, South Sudan is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Juba. South Sudan has a population of about 15,786,898 and covers around 619,745 km² (239,285 sq mi), ranking it 75th in the world by population and 43rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for South Sudan.

The flag of South Sudan is composed of three equal horizontal bands of black, red with white top and bottom edges, and green. A blue equilateral triangle which spans about two-fifth the width of the field is superimposed on the hoist side with its base on the hoist end of the field. At the center of this triangle is a five-pointed yellow star.

The flag of South Sudan is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.