Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of Dinka man | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 South Sudan | 4.5 million[citation needed] |
| Languages | |
| Dinka | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Dinka religion, Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Nuer and other Nilotic peoples | |
The Dinka people (Dinka: Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ) are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan. The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Mangalla-Bor[1] to Renk, in the region of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (two out of three Provinces that were formerly part of southern Sudan), and the Abyei Area of the Ngok Dinka in South Sudan.
They number around 4.5 million, according to the 2008 Sudan census, constituting about 40% of the population[2] of that country and the largest ethnic tribe in South Sudan. The Dinka refer to themselves as Muonyjang (singular) and jieng (plural).
- ^ "Captain J. Liddell's Journeys in the White Nile Region". The Geographical Journal. 24 (6): 651–655. 1904. Bibcode:1904GeogJ..24..651.. doi:10.2307/1776256. ISSN 0016-7398. JSTOR 1776256.
- ^ Ancient Historical Society Virtual Museum, 2010