The Nuer people are a Nilotic ethnic group concentrated in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. They also live in the Ethiopian region of Gambella. The Nuer speak the Nuer language, which belongs to the Nilotic language family. They are the second-largest ethnic group in South Sudan and the largest ethnic group in Gambella, Ethiopia. [4]

At the beginning of the 1800s, the Nuer occupied an area of approximately 8,700 square miles in the Western Nile region, encompassing the territories of the Bul, Leek, Western Jikany, Jagei, and Dok tribes, situated west of the Nile River and north of the 7°52 N latitude.

Dinka groups inhabit the vast arc of land running north, west, and south of the central Nile basin. Nuer groups occupy the central basin itself, extending eastwards along the Sobat and Baro rivers all the way into southwestern Ethiopia.

In the early 1800 AD, Nuer occupied territory of about 8,700 square miles (23,000 km 2) located in Western Nile present-day territories of Bul, Leek, Western Jikany, Jagei, and Dok tribes west of River Nile and North of 7°52 N latitude which was surrounded by Dinka on all sides.

The Nuer live in South Sudan in the swamps and open savanna that stretch on both sides of the river Nile south of its junction with the Sobat and Bahr-el-Ghazal, and on both banks of these two tributaries. Their territory lies approximately 500 miles south of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.

The Dinka–Nuer West Bank Peace & Reconciliation Conference of 1999 was held in what was then the Southern part of Sudan. It is commonly called the "Wunlit Peace Conference" after Wunlit, the village where it was held in eastern Tonj County in Bahr El Ghazal.

The Nuer live mostly in Southern Sudan, in the east Upper Nile Province around the junction of the Nile River with the Bahr el Ghazal and Sobat Rivers, and extending up the Sobat across the Ethiopian border. The Center of the Nuer area is around Lake No.

We know that during the first half of the last century waves of Nuer broke from their homeland to the west of the Nile on to the Dinka lands to the east of that river and that they conquered and absorbed the inhabitants in most of what is now eastern Nuerland (the Nuer distinguish between Nath cieng, the 'homeland', or western Nuer, and Nath ...

Within Nuer, three dialect clusters can be distinguished – Western, Central, and Eastern. Western Nuer is spoken to the west of the White Nile. Central Nuer is spoken on the eastern side of the White Nile in the adjacent area. Eastern Nuer is spoken elsewhere in …

Nuer is a West Nilotic language of the Dinka-Nuer subgroup. It is spoken in South Sudan and in Ethiopia by approximately over 2.5 million people that refer to themselves as Naath and are known to the outside world as the Nuer; they call their language Thok Naath .