Jalle is a Payam in Bor North County, in

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. It is situated on the east side of the Bahr al Jabal River between Bor and Twic East.

History

In 1988, during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005), a MiG-23MS crashed in Jalle Payam near Kolmarek. SPLA Radio reported at the time that the jet had suffered from a technical fault. It was sometimes later reported that the plane had been brought down by the SPLA. The aircraft's pilot, a second lieutenant from

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, was captured by people living near the crash site and turned over to the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). The pilot and his aircraft were held out by the SPLA as "concrete evidence" of foreign involvement in the

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Demographics

Jalle is composed of four bomas:

Akuai-deng Akuai-deng is a boma in Jalle payam, Bor North County, Jonglei State, South Sudan, about 45 kilometers northeast of Bor. The village borders Baidit Payam and is located at the southern extent of the sudd, South Sudan's central wetlands, nea ...

, Jalle,

Kolmarek Kolmarek is a boma in Jalle payam, Bor North County, Jonglei State, South Sudan, about 48 kilometers northeast of Bor. Demographics According to the ''Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan'', conducted in April 2008, Kolmarek boma h ...

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Kuei-juet Kuei-juet is a boma in Jalle payam, Bor North County, Jonglei State, South Sudan, about 60 kilometers northeast of Bor. Demographics According to the ''Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan'', conducted in April 2008, Kuei-juet boma ...

. A number of reports incorrectly state that Jalle is composed of five bomas. This confusion may stem from references to "boma level villages," a phrase indicating that a village is small, not that it is a unit of local government. For example, see According to the ''Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan'', conducted in April 2008, Jalle had a combined population of 13,506 people, composed of 7,024 male and 6,482 female residents.The data collected during the ''Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan'' were to be the primary source of information for decisions about the number and demarcation of electoral constituencies and administrative boundaries in what was then southern Sudan. South Sudanese officials rejected census results for southern Sudan. See . That the majority of the 20,520 returnees who re-settled in Bor County between January and November, 2008, settled in Baidit Payam (owing to flooding in Jalle and better access to humanitarian aid in Baidit) is cited as a reason for an under-count of residents in Jalle Payam during the ''Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan'', conducted in April 2008. See and Also, see

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Jalle is home to Juet, Aboudit, and Alian communities.

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