Gogrial

Gogrial (also rendered and romanized in Arabic as Qaqriyal) is a town in South Sudan.

Gogrial is located in the Gogrial West County of Warrap State, in the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan,[1] close to the borders with the Republic of Sudan and the Abyei region.

This location lies approximately 700 kilometres (430 mi), by road, northwest of Juba, the capital and largest city in that country.

[2] Gogrial, like most South Sudanese towns, sits on a riverbank.

However, it is estimated that the human population within a radius of 7 kilometres (4.3 mi), from the center of town, is approximately 44,600.

Sudan Air Force Antonov An-26-100. 7711 (cn 81–09) This an-26 crash-landed in 1997 at the airstrip of Gogrial. The plane got hit by SPLA-fire and had to make an emergency landing. Antonovs were used in the Sudanese Civil War as bombers and were feared by the population of Southern Sudan. 'VVll' is Arabic for '7711', which is written in Western-style numbers on the port-side.