South Sudan

The country calling code for South Sudan is +211. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local South Sudan number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

South Sudan is assigned SS as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and SSD as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for South Sudan is .ss. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of South Sudan is the South Sudanese pound, with the ISO 4217 code SSP and the symbol £. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside South Sudan are quoted in SSP. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for South Sudan is +03:00, currently UTC+03:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of South Sudan is Juba. South Sudan sits in Africa, specifically the Middle Africa subregion. Its approximate centre point is 7.00000000, 30.00000000. Traffic in South Sudan drives on the right. Languages recorded for South Sudan: English.

South Sudan shares a land border with 6 countries: Central African Republic, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.