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Sudd

The Sudd (Arabic: السد, romanized: as-Sudd, Nuer: Baki̱ec, Dinka: Toc) is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile's Baḥr al-Jabal section. The Arabic word sudd is derived from sadd (سد), meaning "barrier" or "obstruction". The term "the sudd" has come to refer to any large solid floating vegetation island or mat. The area which the swamp…

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Area
57,000 km2 (22,000 mi2)
Biome
flooded grasslands and savannas
Borders
East Sudanian savanna · Northern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic · Sahelian Acacia savanna
Country
South Sudan
Designated
5 June 2006
Realm
Afrotropical

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Vegetation and ecosystem

Threats and preservation

Jonglei diversion canal

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Sudd

Nodes113
Edges112
Triples161
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017699
Components1

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Sudd

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related to Fauna · 22
Sudd → Africa, African, Among, As, Clarias, Distichodus, Earth, Enteromius, In, Including, Mongalla, Mormyrus, Nile, Nothobranchius, Over, Sahel, Senegal, Some, Synodontis, The
related to References · 22
Sudd → Abya, Earth Surface Processes, Evaluation, Fohrer, GermanySutcliffe, Hydrologic Investigation, IAHS Special Publication No, Kiel, Landforms, Morphological, Nile, Parks, Petersen, Southern Sudan University, Spatio-temporal, Sudan Advanced Geoscience, Sudd Swamps, Sutcliffe, The Hydrology, UK
related to Further reading · 19
Sudd → Bastiaanssen, Bibcode, Earth System Sciences, Hurk, Hydrology, Impact, Journal, JSTOR, Mohamed, New, Nile, Royal African Society, S2CID, Savenije, Stanton, The Great Marshes, W08420, Water Resources Research, White Nile
related to Jonglei diversion canal · 19
Sudd → Alan Moorehead, Bahr, By, Egypt, Ghazal, In, Jabal, Nile, Nile's, Public Works, Sir William Garstin, State, The, The Egyptian, The Sudd, The White Nile, Undersecretary, White Nile, White Nile's
related to Location · 13
Sudd → Bahr, During, Ghazal, Its, Jonglei Canal, Lake Victoria, Malakal, Mongalla, Since, Sobat River, The, The Sudd, White Nile
related to Geomorphology · 10
Sudd → Bahr, Bor, In, Jabal, Juba, Sandy, Shambe, The, The Bahr, This
related to Threats and preservation · 8
Sudd → Mongalla Game Reserve, Nile, Shambe Reserve, Southern Sudan, The, There, Zeraf Island, Zeraf River
related to Climate · 7
Sudd → Bahr, Hydrologically, Jabal, Orographic, Roughly, The, Water
related to External links · 6
Sudd → Elephant, Google Maps, Saharan, Sudan, Terrestrial Ecoregions, World Wildlife Fund
related to Vegetation and ecosystem · 6
Sudd → Grassland, Petersen, Sutcliffe, The, Toic, Vegetation

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nile water area swamp canal sudan vegetation south river swamps white bahr system areas mongalla seasonal al jabal floating increased

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SuddArea57,000 km2 (22,000 mi2)1.00infobox
SuddBiomeflooded grasslands and savannas1.00infobox
SuddBordersEast Sudanian savanna1.00infobox
SuddBordersNorthern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic1.00infobox
SuddBordersSahelian Acacia savanna1.00infobox
SuddCoordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
SuddCountrySouth Sudan1.00infobox
SuddDesignated5 June 20061.00infobox
SuddRealmAfrotropical1.00infobox
SuddReference no.16221.00infobox
marbled lungfishinstance ofand this mostly involves fish that are found in much of the Nile system0.80text
Senegal bichirinstance ofand this mostly involves fish that are found in much of the Nile system0.80text

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