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Juba

a river in NE Africa, rising in S central Ethiopia and flowing south across Somalia to the Indian Ocean: the chief river of Somalia. Length: about 1660 km (1030 miles)

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Juba

a city in southern Sudan, administrative center of Equatoria Province. Population, 15,000 (1964). It is an important commercial transportation center: it is a river port on the left bank of the White Nile, the starting point for shipping to Khartoum, and a junction point for highways leading to the Nile Valley from the Gulf of Guinea (beginning at Douala in Cameroon) and from the Indian Ocean (Mombasa, Kenya).

Juba

(Cuba), a river in northeast Africa in Ethiopia and Somalia. The Juba forms at the city of Dolo at the confluence of the Ganale Dorya, Dawa, and Webi Gestro rivers, which originate in the Ethiopian Plateau. Length, 1,600 km (from the source of the Ganale Dorya); basin area, 196,000 sq km. The river with its winding channel cuts across the Somali plateau, where it loses much water to evaporation, and flows into the Indian Ocean. During floodtime it has a full strong flow; in the wet seasons (April-June and September-November) it is navigable to Bardera.

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