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History of South Sudan in maps
South Sudan as it appears in 6 interactive history atlases, from 1890 to 2015: South Sudan, Southern Sudan. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was South Sudan before it was South Sudan? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
South Sudan · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Colony or dependency |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Southern Sudan · Haiti and Kenya independence
Southern Sudan was part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium created in 1899 and governed in practice by Britain, which ran its south separately from the Arab north. Sudan became independent on 1 January 1956, the first of Kenya’s neighbours to do so, and civil war between north and south began even before independence.
| Other states and societies — the opening position | |
| Under colonial rule | |
| Other states and societies |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
South Sudan · WWI
| Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position |
South Sudan · Cold War
| NATO & core Western allies — the opening position | |
| Non-aligned & neutral |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
South Sudan · Decolonization of Africa
| British-ruled — the opening position | |
| Independent Africa |
DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
South Sudan (part of Sudan until 2011) · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Authoritarian, one-party or colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Partial or unequal; treaty signed only; transition | |
| No reform yet / outside this story |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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