Ikotos County
| Ikotos County | |
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 Ikotos County
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| Coordinates: 4°4′42″N 33°6′32″E / 4.07833°N 33.10889°ECoordinates: 4°4′42″N 33°6′32″E / 4.07833°N 33.10889°E | |
| Country |
 South Sudan
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| State | Eastern Equatoria |
| Seat | Ikwoto |
| Government | |
| • County Commissioner | Peter Lokeng Lotone |
| Population (mid-2010) | |
| • Total | 88,536 |
Ikotos County was an administrative area in the Eastern Equatoria state of South Sudan with headquarters in the town of Ikotos. The people, who live in the former county's area by subsistence agriculture and cattle herding, are poverty-stricken. Years of civil war have made violence commonplace: most people have experienced the murder of a close family member. In 2009, AK-47 rifles were used in 42 per cent of killings.
Ikotos county was in the south of Eastern Equatoria state, adjoining the Ugandan border to the south, Magwi county to the west, Torit county to the north, and Budi county to the east. Ikotos was part of Torit county until 2004. The county is administratively divided into six payams, which are further sub-divided into bomas. Payams are Chiahari, Ikotos, Ikwoto Central, Imotong, Lomohidang and Lomohidang North.
The county contained the whole part of the Imatong mountains, which included the highest peak in Sudan, Mount Hinatie at 3,187 metres (10,456 ft). The mountains rise steeply from the surrounding plains, which are at an elevation of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) on the South Sudan-Uganda border, sloping down gradually to the north. These plains are crossed by many streams, separated by low, rounded ridges, and dotted with small gneiss hills, outliers of the main mountain range. The mountains are sharply faulted and are the source of many year-round rivers.
Average annual rainfall in the mountains is about 1,500 millimetres (4.9 ft) The plains and the lower parts of the mountains are covered by deciduous woodland, wooded grassland and bamboo thickets to the north and west. The areas to the east and southeast are in the rain shadow of the mountains, with dry arid grassland or deciduous or semi-evergreen bush.
In 2002 the Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Association, the humanitarian wing of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, estimated that the population was 67,340, including internally displaced persons. An estimate of the population of the county in mid-2010 was 88,536 in 17,280 households, 90% engaged in agriculture. Total cereal harvested area was 14,774 hectares (36,510 acres).
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