Terekeka County

Terekeka County
Central Equatoria State Counties
Central Equatoria State Counties
CountrySouth Sudan
StateCentral Equatoria
HeadquartersTerekeka
Population
 (2008)
 • Total140,396
Time zoneUTC+2 (CAT)

Terekeka County is an administrative division of Central Equatoria in South Sudan.[1] It is the capital of surrounding Mundari and Boma counties. It lies on both the east and west bank of the White Nile north of Juba The word "Terekeka" is a combination of two words; "Tirgigi", a kind of hard shrub and "Terere" an open hard ground usually found in the middle of shrub trees. The local referral of "Terere i Tirgigi lukata" became shortened and distorted to create the current name, "Terekeka".

The current commissioner for Terekeka County is Warnyank Lukö Buyu who replaced James Lino Malou in a republican decree by President Salva Kiir in November 2022.[2]

  1. ^ Full list of Kiir's proposed new 28 states in S Sudan Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Radio Tamazuj
  2. ^ Ninrew, Chany (2022-11-05). "Kiir sacks Terekeka Commissioner, 5 states MPs". Eye Radio. Retrieved 2023-01-11.