Local time
Thu, 4:32 AM GMT+2Africa/KhartoumCity
Wau
7.70° N, 27.99° E
- Population
- 127,384
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 3 of 11
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 11 cities of South Sudan in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of South Sudan, so this is not a national ranking.
- Elevation
- 438 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Western Bahr el Ghazal
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Africa/Khartoum
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Wau, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Wau have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
