Boma (administrative division)
A boma is a lowest-level administrative division, below payams, in South Sudan. Equivalent fifth-level divisions elsewhere are described as village, block or ward.[1] As of 2009, South Sudan's 514 payams have an average of 4.2 bomas each.[2]
The term boma originated from the town of Boma in Jonglei, the first place captured by the Sudan People's Liberation Army at the start of its 1983 insurgency.[1]
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- 1 2 Deng, Lual (2013). Power of creative reasoning : the ideas and vision of john garang. Iuniverse Com. pp. 48, 140. ISBN 147596028X.
- ↑ Klopper, Hester; Uys, Leana (2012). The state of nursing and nursing education in Africa : a country-by-country review. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International. ISBN 193547684X.
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