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Ikotos County is an administrative area in the Eastern Equatoria state of South Sudan with headquarters in the town of Ikotos. The people, who live 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.〔 ==Location== Ikotos county is 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=UNHCR )〕 The county contains the whole part of the Imatong mountains, which include the highest peak in Sudan, Mount Hinatie at . The mountains rise steeply from the surrounding plains, which are at an elevation of 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 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ikotos County」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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