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Lakes, Sudan
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Lakes (state)
Lakes
(
al-Buhayrat
) was one of the ten
states
of
South Sudan
. It has an area of 40,235 km².
Rumbek
is the capital of the state. Lakes is in the
Bahr el Ghazal
region of South Sudan, in addition to
Northern Bahr el Ghazal
,
Western Bahr el Ghazal
, and
Warrap
states. Bahr el Ghazal itself was a former province which was split from the Anglo-Egyptian
mudiriyat
, or
province
of
Equatoria
in 1948. The eastern border is the
White Nile
with
Jonglei
on the opposite bank. To the northeast lies
Unity State
. Other borders include
Warrap State
towards the northwest,
Western Equatoria
to the south and west, and
Central Equatoria
to the south.
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