Kurmuk (Arabic: الكرمك) is a town in south-eastern Sudan near the border with Ethiopia.

Lt. General and Governor Malik Agar currently names Kurmuk the capital city of Southern Blue Nile.

[2] In July 1940 during the East African Campaign the town was occupied by advancing Italian troops.

Due to lack of education in Kurmuk County particularly, the Minister/Advisory of the Governor Major General Steven Amath Dicko convened with his Kurmukians in November 2008 in an attempt to tax citizens as means to generate revenues to bring primary schools and secondary educations to every district of the Kwanim Pa.[citation needed] To alleviate this deficiency, United States Agency for International Development built the Granville-Abbas Girls' Secondary School in Kurmuk, which was opened 8 March 2010.

The school was named for an American diplomat and his Sudanese colleague who were both assassinated in Khartoum on January 1, 2008.