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Malakal population

160,765people · latest figure

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames

Malakal has a population of 160,765, making it the 4th largest place we list in South Sudan. It is in Upper Nile.

Malakal holds 1.3% of South Sudan's 12,436,037 people. Juba, the largest place we list there, is 2.8 times its size.

160,765
population

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
JubaCentral Equatoria450,000
WinejokNorthern Bahr al Ghazal300,000
YeiCentral Equatoria260,720
WauWestern Bahr al Ghazal127,384
KuacjokWarrap78,000
PajokEastern Equatoria49,000

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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.