Nuba peoples on Fotopedia

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Nuba - body painting

Kordofan en de Nuba - Kau

Kau and the people of the Nuba mountains - Sudan

Nuba village - Kordofan - Sudan

Nuba - body painting

The people of the Nuba mountains

Kau and the people of the Nuba mountains - Sudan

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Nuba peoples

Nuba is a collective term used here for the peoples who inhabit the Nuba Mountains, in Sudan, Africa. Although the term is used to describe them as if they composed a single group, the Nuba are multiple distinct peoples and speak different languages. Estimates of the Nuba population vary widely; the Sudanese government estimated that they numbered 1.07 million in 2003.

Leni Riefenstahl, better known for directing Triumph of the Will and Olympia, published a collection of her photographs of the peoples titled The Last of the Nuba in 1976.

Awarded Australian born photographer Jack Picone also photographically documented the lives of the Nuba people between 1994 - 1998. The series of images called "The Nuba" can be seen online here: http://www.jackpiconeportfolio.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=2

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Demography of Sudan

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Sudan, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populous, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

In Sudan's 1993 census, the population was calculated at 25 million. No comprehensive census has been carried out since that time due to the civil war. Estimates of Sudan, including the population of South Sudan, ranged from 37 million (United Nations estimate) to 45 million (CIA estimate). Since the secession of South Sudan in July 2011, estimates place the current population of Sudan at a little over 30 million.

The population of metropolitan Khartoum (including Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum North) is growing rapidly and ranges from six to seven million, including around two million displaced persons from the southern war zone as well as western and eastern drought-affected areas.

Despite a predominate Arab culture and identity, Sudan has hundreds of ethnic and tribal divisions and language groups between them, which makes effective collaboration among them a major problem.