The Dinka is an ethnic group inhabiting the Bahr el Ghazal region of the Nile basin, Jonglei and parts of southern Kordufan and Upper Nile regions. They are mainly agripastoral people, relying on cattle herding at riverside camps in the dry season and growing millet (awuou) and other varieties of grains (rap) in fixed settlements during the rainy season. They number around 4.5 million people according to the 2008 Sudan census, constituting about 18% of the population of the entire country, and the largest ethnic tribe in South Sudan. Dinka, or as they refer to themselves, Muonyjang (singular) and jieng (plural), are one of the branches of the River Lake Nilotes (mainly sedentary agripastoral peoples of East Africa who speak Nilotic languages, including the Nuer and Luo). Dinka are sometimes noted for their height. With the Tutsi of Rwanda, they are believed to be the tallest people in Africa. Roberts and Bainbridge reported the average height of in a sample of 52 Dinka Ageir and in 227 Dinka Ruweng measured in 1953–1954. However, it seems the stature of today's Dinka males is lower, possibly as a consequence of undernutrition and conflicts. An anthropometric survey of Dinka men, war refugees in Ethiopia, published in 1995 found a mean height of . The Dinka people have no centralised political authority, instead comprising many independent but interlinked clans. Certain of those clans traditionally provide ritual chiefs, known as the "masters of the fishing spear" or beny bith, who provide leadership for the entire people and appear to be at least in part hereditary.

Das Wort Dinka bezeichnet

Die Dinka sind ein schwarzafrikanisches Volk im Sudan, das die Feuchtsavannen der Bundesstaaten Gharb Bahr al-Ghazal im Westen und West-Äquatoria im Süden, im Norden Teile von Süd-Kordofan und die ausgedehnten Sumpfgebiete des Sudd der Jonglei-Provinz und die Provinz Oberer Nil im Osten bis zur äthiopischen Grenze bewohnt. Damit siedeln sie auf rund zehn Prozent der Fläche des Landes. Mit einer Bevölkerungszahl von etwa 2,5 bis 3 Millionen sind die Dinka die größte Volksgruppe im Südsudan.

Les Dinkas sont un peuple dans le Sud du Soudan, qui vivent dans la région de la crise de Bahr al-Ghazal. Dinka veut dire « hommes ».

Dinkowie (Dinka) - afrykańskie plemię zamieszkujące południowy Sudan.

De Dinka is een groep stammen in het zuiden van Soedan, die de moeraslanden van Bahr el Ghazal bewonen bij het bekken van de Nijl. Zij zijn voornamelijk afhankelijk van de agrarische sector. In de droge periode voeren ze hun kuddes naar de rivierbeddingen en in de regenperiode verbouwen ze gierst en andere  granen op de akkers. Er wordt geschat dat er ongeveer 4,5 miljoen Dinka zijn, wat neer komt op ongeveer 12% van het totale inwonersaantal van Soedan. De Dinka vormen de grootste etnische groep in Zuid-Soedan.