[1] The village is to the east of the White Nile and about 80 miles (130 km) north of Bor.

The people are pastoralists, with an economy based on cattle which demands seasonal migration in search of good pasture.

There were delays, and in April 2009 the clergy unilaterally declared that Kongor was a diocese in a letter to the Rt.

Reverend Nathaniel Garang Anyieth, Bishop of Bor Diocese.

The early activist leader Joseph Oduho, one of the founders of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), was killed during a fight that broke out between SPLM factions at a meeting in Kongor on 27 March 1993.