| Official Name: | Tonj East County |
| Settlement Type: | County |
| Pushpin Map: | South Sudan |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in South Sudan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | South Sudan |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Warrap State |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Km2: | 4,425 |
| Population As Of: | 2017 estimate[1] |
| Population Total: | 164,215 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Timezone: | CAT |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
Tonj East County is an administrative area in Warrap State, South Sudan. [2] [3]
Tonj East County has its headquarters at Romic Town. Tonj East is part of Greater Tonj Community. The Dinka–Nuer West Bank Peace & Reconciliation Conference of 1999 was held in Wunlit, a small town centre situated in Tonj East County. It is commonly called the "Wunlit Peace Conference". The conference brought together Nuer from Western Upper Nile and Dinka from Tonj, Rumbek, and Yirol.[1] It is the most prominent and comprehensively documented case of a people-to-people peace process in what is now the Republic of South Sudan.[2]
The current Tonj East County is a curved out of the former Riangnhom Rural Council. Tonj District was made up of the 3 major rural councils including:
During the war of liberation period of Sudan People Liberation Movement & Army (SPLM/A) Tonj East was governed under Tonj County and the region then had two payams:
In 2004 Dr. John Garang De Mabior the then SPLM Chairman split Tonj County under New Sudan administrative areas curved out Makuac Payam and Ananatak Payam and named them as Tonj East County governed at Romic town, an urban centre at the border end of both Makuac and Ananatak Payam.
The current Tonj East County is made up of the following communities:
Tonj East is the home to very important and influential politicians in South Sudan and Warrap State: