West Pokot County

West Pokot County is a county in . Its capital and largest town is , its area is approximately 9,169.4 square kilometres and it measures 132 kilometres from north to south.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: county of Kenya with 513,000 residents
  • Description: county of Kenya
  • Also known as: “Okrožje West Pokot”, “West Pokotin piirikunta”, “West Suk District”, “Вест-Покот”, and “西ポーコット郡”

West Pokot County

Latitude
1.75° or 1° 45′ north
Longitude
35.25° or 35° 15′ east
Population
513,000
Elevation
1,316 metres (4,318 feet)
Open location code
6GHQQ722+22
Geo­Names ID
178145
Wiki­data ID
Q590860
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“West Pokot County” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ምዕራብ ፖኮት ስብስብ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qərb Pokot Rayon”
  • Bengali: “পশ্চিম পোকট কাউন্টি”
  • Cebuano: “West Pokot”
  • Chinese: “西波克特郡”
  • Dutch: “West-Pokot County”
  • Dutch: “West-Pokot”
  • Finnish: “Länsi-Pokotin piirikunta”
  • French: “Comté de West Pokot”
  • German: “West Pokot County”
  • German: “West Pokot District”
  • Hausa: “Gundumar Pokot ta Yamma”
  • Indonesian: “County West Pokot”
  • Italian: “Contea di West Pokot”
  • Japanese: “ウェスト・ポコット (カウンティ)”
  • Japanese: “ウェスト・ポコット”
  • Japanese: “西ポコット”
  • Javanese: “Kabupaten Pokot Kulon”
  • Kazakh: “Батыс Покот округі”
  • Kirghiz: “Батыш Покот округу”
  • Korean: “서포코트현”
  • Malay: “Daerah Pokot Barat”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “West Pokot Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “West Pokot”
  • Norwegian: “West Pokot fylke”
  • Oromo: “Gidda Pokot Baʼa”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਸ਼ਚਮ ਪੋਕਾਟ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
  • Persian: “شهرستان پوکوت غربی”
  • Polish: “West Pokot”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Pokot Ocidental”
  • Pushto: “د لویدیځ پوکوټ کاونټی”
  • Russian: “Западный покотский округ”
  • Slovenian: “West Pokot County”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Pokot Galbeed”
  • Spanish: “Condado de West Pokot”
  • Swahili: “Kaunti ya Pokot Magharibi”
  • Swedish: “Västra Pokot”
  • Tagalog: “Kondado ng Kanlurang Pokot”
  • Tajik: “Ноҳияи Покот Ғарбӣ”
  • Tatar: “Көнбатыш Покот округы”
  • Urdu: “مغربی پوکوت کاؤنٹی”
  • Uzbek: “G’arbiy Pokot tumani”
  • Venetian: “contea de West Pokot”
  • Vietnamese: “West Pokot”
  • Welsh: “Sir West Pokot”
  • Zulu: “West Pokot County”

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