Makuach (boma), South Sudan explained

Makuach
Native Name Lang:dik
Pushpin Map:South Sudan
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:South Sudan
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Greater Upper Nile
Subdivision Type2:State
Subdivision Name2:Jonglei State
Subdivision Type3:County
Subdivision Name3:Bor County
Subdivision Type4:Payam
Subdivision Name4:Makuach
Unit Pref:Metric
Population Density Km2:auto

Makuach village is a boma in Makuach payam, in the Bor County of Jonglei State in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan, about 15 kilometers east of Bor.

Demographics

According to the Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan, conducted in April 2008, Makuach boma had a population of 5,555 people, composed of 2,721 male and 2,834 female residents.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. National Bureau of Statistics . 2013 . Population Distribution by Sex by Boma, Vol. III . The Republic of South Sudan, The National Bureau of Statistics . 34 . June 11, 2017 . Table 142: Jonglei State, Bor South County, Makuach Payam . https://web.archive.org/web/20171114000909/http://www.ssnbss.org/home/document/census/population-distribution-by-sex-by-BOMA . November 14, 2017 . dead .
  2. In 2008, at the time of the census, Makuach was located in Bor South County. The data collected during the Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan were to be the primary source of information for decisions about the number and demarcation of electoral constituencies and administrative boundaries in what was then southern Sudan. South Sudanese officials rejected census results for southern Sudan. See Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre . 2010 . 5th Population and Housing Census in Sudan – An Incomplete Exercise . Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre, Geneva (Switzerland) . June 11, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170918135100/http://www.sudanconsortium.org/member_publications/2010/February/DRDC.Report%20on%20the%205th%20Population%20Census%20in%20Sudan.February2010.pdf . September 18, 2017 . dead . Also, see Demographics of South Sudan.