Sea of Gazelles

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Sea of Gazelles is the English meaning of "Bahr el Ghazal," a region and river area in South Sudan named for its once-abundant gazelle populations.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Sea of Gazelles canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region ⓘ
river region ⓘ
toponym ⓘ
administrativelyDividedInto Lakes State ⓘ
Northern Bahr el Ghazal State ⓘ
Western Bahr el Ghazal State ⓘ
borderedBy Central African Republic ⓘ
Democratic Republic of the Congo ⓘ
Lakes region ⓘ
Sudan ⓘ
Warrap region ⓘ
linked to: Warrap State
countryBeforeIndependence Sudan ⓘ
drainsInto White Nile ⓘ
etymologyMeaning Sea of Gazelles ⓘ
hasCapitalLikeCity Wau ⓘ
hasClimate tropical savanna ⓘ
hasColonialHistoryWith Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ⓘ
hasEconomicActivity pastoralism ⓘ
subsistence agriculture ⓘ
hasEcosystem grasslands ⓘ
wetlands ⓘ
hasEnglishName Sea of Gazelles ⓘ
hasFeature river area ⓘ
hasHistoricalAssociation Sudanese civil conflicts ⓘ
hasHistoricalName Bahr el Ghazal Province ⓘ
linked to: Bahr el Ghazal
hasHydrologicalFeature Bahr el Ghazal River ⓘ
hasLanguageOfOriginalName Arabic ⓘ
hasMajorRiver Bahr el Ghazal River ⓘ
hasOriginalName Bahr el Ghazal ⓘ
hasPrimaryLanguageSpoken Arabic ⓘ
Dinka ⓘ
English ⓘ
hasSeasonalCharacteristic seasonal flooding ⓘ
hasSettlement Aweil ⓘ
Raga ⓘ
hasWildlife antelopes ⓘ
gazelles ⓘ
migratory birds ⓘ
isSubdivisionOf South Sudan ⓘ
knownFor floodplains ⓘ
wildlife ⓘ
locatedInCountry South Sudan ⓘ
locatedInRegion Bahr el Ghazal region ⓘ
linked to: Bahr el Ghazal
locatedOnContinent Africa ⓘ
namedAfter gazelles ⓘ
onceAbundantIn gazelles ⓘ
partOf Nile basin ⓘ
linked to: Nile Basin
partOfEcologicalRegion Sudd wetlands ⓘ
linked to: Sudd

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bahr el Ghazal → nameMeaning → Sea of Gazelles ⓘ
Sea of Gazelles → hasEnglishName → Sea of Gazelles ⓘ
Sea of Gazelles → etymologyMeaning → Sea of Gazelles ⓘ