Skip to content
Nyala

File:Cinema_street2.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ851576· pop 48· linked from 118 articles

capital of state of South Darfur in the south-west of Sudan

Weather now

cached 6h ago
24°broken clouds
71% 3.6 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Locality
نيالا
Region
جنوب دارفور South Darfur
Country
السودان
Population
565,734
Timezone
Africa/Khartoum

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Key facts

Country
Sudan , De facto: Government of Peace and Unity
State
South Darfur
Control
Rapid Support Forces
Elevation
2,208 ft (673 m)
Metro
1,145,590

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Official name
نيالا
Population
492984
Elevation
673
Image
Nyala market street and post office 2012 P1010331 608 kb.jpg
Show 3 more facts
Commons category
Nyala
native label
نيالا
Sources (5)

via Wikidata · CC0

Travel guide

Understand

Nyala is an industrial city and the capital of southern Darfur. It is a major trading post for Gum arabic. Although Nyala is in Darfur, it has escaped most of the violent conflict; however there are thousands of refugees in camps just outside the city.

Stay safe

See the warning on the Sudan article for information on the security situation.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

~6 min read

Article

Nyala (Daju: "the place of chatting"; Arabic: نيالا) is a city and the capital of the state of South Darfur in the south-west of Sudan, with an estimated population of 1,100,000 in 2024.

History

Gallery (5)

On the map

2 mapped locations

Connections

Categories