| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 3.7 million[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Sudan (Nuba Mountains) and South Sudan | |
 Sudan | 3.7 million[2] |
 South Sudan | 70,000[3] |
| Languages | |
| Kordofanian, Kadu, Nyima, Sudanese Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Islam, Traditional African religions, Christianity | |
The Nuba people are indigenous inhabitants of southern Sudan. The Nuba are made up of 50 various indigenous ethnic groups who inhabit the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state in Sudan,[4] encompassing multiple distinct people that speak different languages which belong to at least two unrelated language families. Estimates of the Nuba population vary widely; the Sudanese government estimated that they numbered 2.07 million in 2003.[5][better source needed]
The term Nuba should not be confused with the Nubians, an unrelated ethnic group speaking the Nubian languages living in northern Sudan and southern Egypt,[6] although the Hill Nubians, who live in the Nuba Mountains, are also considered part of the Nubian people.[7]
- ^ "Sudan: Nuba". Miniority Rights Group. 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Sudan: Nuba". Miniority Rights Group. 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Nuba refugees from South Kordofan State seek out a new life in Yida, South Sudan". Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ Rottenburg, Richard; Calkins, Sandra; Gertel, Jörg (2014). Disrupting Territories : Land, Commodification and Conflict in Sudan. Suffolk, England: James Currey. p. 124. ISBN 9781847010544.
- ^ South Kordofan
- ^ Guarak, Mawut Achiecque Mach (2011). Integration and fragmentation of the Sudan : an African renaissance. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-1-4567-2355-2. OCLC 704063380.
- ^ Winter, Roger (2000), Spaulding, Jay; Beswick, Stephanie (eds.), "The Nuba People: Confronting Cultural Liquidation", White Nile Black Blood: War, Leadership, and Ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala, Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press, archived from the original on 2000-04-09