Aweil, South Sudan
8.7827.39Koordinaten: 8 ° 47 'N, 27 ° 23' O
Aweil (Arabic أويل, alternative spellings Uwail, Uwayl or Aweel ) is the capital of the South Sudanese state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal and the Aweil West County.
Location
Aweil is in the northwest of South Sudan between the Rivers Lol in the north and Pongo in the south, along the railway line to Wau and nearly 100 km from the nearest major city.
Population
The vast majority of the population belongs to the Dinka.
Population development:
Infrastructure
The built in the 1960s railway line leading north to al - Ubayyid and ended to the south in Wau was interrupted in the southern Sudanese Civil War. 2009 drove for the first time a train of Babanusa after Aweil, 2010, the section between Aweil and Wau was reopened. The roads are bad.