Rubkona

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title: "Rubkona" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-unity-state", "rubkona-county"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-unity-state" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubkona" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
official_name	Rubkona
native_name
settlement_type	Town
map_caption	Location of Rubkona in South Sudan
dot_x
pushpin_map	South Sudan
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in South Sudan
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	South Sudan
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Greater Upper Nile
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	Unity State
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	Rubkona County
leader_title1
established_title
established_title2
established_title3
unit_pref	Imperial
area_total_km2
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2006 Estimate
population_total	7700
population_blank2_title	Religions
timezone	CAT
utc_offset	+2
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
elevation_m	400
postal_code_type
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|postal_code = |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = Rubkona (or Rub Kona, Rub-Koni) is a town in the Rubkona County of Unity State, in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. It lies on the northern bank of the Bahr el Ghazal River, connected via the El Salaam Bridge (The Peace Bridge) to the state capital, Bentiu. This bridge was bombed by North Sudanese MiG-29 bomber airplanes on April 23, 2012, during the Heglig Crisis.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501710_162-57418868/sudan-migs-bomb-market-in-south-sudan/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120424072709/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501710_162-57418868/sudan-migs-bomb-market-in-south-sudan/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 24, 2012 |work=CBS News |date=April 23, 2012 |title=Sudan MiGs bomb market in South Sudan |accessdate=2012-04-24}} Rubkona is the administrative center of Rubkona County.{{cite web |ref= |url=http://www.unsudanig.org/library/mapcatalogue/south/data/state/SS_0026_U_State_A4_20100308_300_1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610212328/http://www.unsudanig.org/library/mapcatalogue/south/data/state/SS_0026_U_State_A4_20100308_300_1.pdf |archive-date=June 10, 2016 |title= Unity State Map |publisher=UN OCHA |date=August 3, 2010 |accessdate=2011-09-14 |url-status=usurped}}

During the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005), conditions were extremely poor and dangerous. Refugees from the countryside moved to the town for greater safety. After the peace agreement was signed in January 2005, there have been great improvements. However, most of those improvements were destroyed following the outbreak of the South Sudanese Civil War in 2013. It previously had a large market, and roads to the south were being greatly improved prior to the war. In the rainy season, Rubkona is flooded. People must move from one part of town to another to escape the water.

Bentiu Airport is located just north of Rubkona. Few kilometres north of the town, is also the UNMISS main base in Unity state where Protection of Civilian Sites (POCs) are being hosted. As of September 2020, approximately 167,856 IDPs were reportedly residing within the five PoC, or former-PoC, sites.

References

|url=http://reliefweb.int/node/278763 |title=Sudan: ACF Nutrition survey - Preliminary results report, Rub Kona County, Unity State |publisher=Action Contre la Faim |date=25 August 2008 |accessdate=2011-09-14}} |url=http://www.sudantribune.com/Embattled-South-Sudan-s-Bentiu,15857 |title=Embattled South Sudan’s Bentiu emerges from war |date=25 May 2006 |work=Sudan Tribune |accessdate=2011-09-14}}

References

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