The Shilluk are a major Luo Nilotic ethnic group that resides in the northeastern Upper Nile state of South Sudan on the western bank of the White Nile River in Upper Nile. Before the Second Sudanese Civil War, the Shilluk also lived in settlements on the northern bank of the Sobat River, close to where the Sobat joins the Nile in the defunct Sobat district and in particular Anakdiar district today. The defunct Sobat district was made up of the Current Baliet County and Akoka County, and the indigenous residents of these counties are people of shilluk(chollol) with their different clans, who are residing in Obwa lelo and Anakdiar on the Eastern White Nile banks and around the northern Sobat River confluence with the White Nile along both banks of Sobat River eastward up to Doma North of Sobat and Ashweel South of Sobat River. And also, these chollo people are residence of the some parts of White Nile eastern Bank up to the border of the Sudan in Renk county today.