Key facts
- Country
- South Sudan
- State
- Upper Nile (state)
- Source
- Baro River
- Location
- Dibdib, Ethiopia
- Coordinates
- 7°42′04″N 35°52′44″E / 7.701°N 35.879°E / 7.701; 35.879
- Elevation
- 2,367 m (7,766 ft)
- 2nd source
- Pibor River
- Mouth
- White Nile
- Length
- 354 km (220 mi)
- Basin size
- 225,000 km (87,000 sq mi)
- Average
- 412 m /s (14,500 cu ft/s)
- Minimum
- 99 m /s (3,500 cu ft/s)
- Maximum
- 680 m /s (24,000 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- White Nile → Nile → Mediterranean Sea
- River system
- Nile
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- South Sudan
- Located in
- Upper Nile
- Continent
- Africa
- Elevation
- 394
- Image
- Sobat.jpg
- Length
- 306
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- watershed area
- 225000
- Commons category
- Sobat River
- mouth of the watercourse
- White Nile
- topic's main category
- Category:Sobat River
- discharge
- 412
- drainage basin
- Nile basin
- tributary
- Pibor River
- basin country
- Greater Upper Nile
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Sobat River basin The Sobat River is a river of the Greater Upper Nile region in northeastern South Sudan, Africa. It is the most southerly of the great eastern tributaries of the White Nile, before the confluence with the Blue Nile.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sobat River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
4 mapped locations