Sea of Gazelles

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Sea of Gazelles is the English meaning of "Bahr el Ghazal," a region and river area in South Sudan named for its once-abundant gazelle populations.

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Label Occurrences
Sea of Gazelles canonical 3

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
river region
toponym
administrativelyDividedInto Lakes State
Northern Bahr el Ghazal State
Western Bahr el Ghazal State
borderedBy Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lakes region
Sudan
Warrap region
linked to: Warrap State
countryBeforeIndependence Sudan
drainsInto White Nile
etymologyMeaning Sea of Gazelles
hasCapitalLikeCity Wau
hasClimate tropical savanna
hasColonialHistoryWith Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
hasEconomicActivity pastoralism
subsistence agriculture
hasEcosystem grasslands
wetlands
hasEnglishName Sea of Gazelles
hasFeature river area
hasHistoricalAssociation Sudanese civil conflicts
hasHistoricalName Bahr el Ghazal Province
linked to: Bahr el Ghazal
hasHydrologicalFeature Bahr el Ghazal River
hasLanguageOfOriginalName Arabic
hasMajorRiver Bahr el Ghazal River
hasOriginalName Bahr el Ghazal
hasPrimaryLanguageSpoken Arabic
Dinka
English
hasSeasonalCharacteristic seasonal flooding
hasSettlement Aweil
Raga
hasWildlife antelopes
gazelles
migratory birds
isSubdivisionOf South Sudan
knownFor floodplains
wildlife
locatedInCountry South Sudan
locatedInRegion Bahr el Ghazal region
linked to: Bahr el Ghazal
locatedOnContinent Africa
namedAfter gazelles
onceAbundantIn gazelles
partOf Nile basin
linked to: Nile Basin
partOfEcologicalRegion Sudd wetlands
linked to: Sudd

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bahr el Ghazal nameMeaning Sea of Gazelles
Sea of Gazelles hasEnglishName Sea of Gazelles
Sea of Gazelles etymologyMeaning Sea of Gazelles