Pol Explained

Pol or POL may refer to:

Places

• Pol State, a former princely state in Gujarat, western India; originally Vijaynagar State after its first capital
• Pol, Iran, a city in Khamir County, Hormozgan province, Iran
• Pol, Lugo, a municipality in Spain
• River Pol, a small river in Cornwall, England
• POL, ISO-3166-1 alpha-3 code for the country of Poland

Codes

• POL, International Olympic Committee country code for Poland - see List of IOC country codes
• pol, ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 language codes for the Polish language

Transport

• POL, IATA airport code for Pemba Airport (Mozambique)
• POL, National Rail station code for Polsloe Bridge railway station, Devon, England
• POL, an abbreviation for port of loading

People

Given name

• Pól, an Irish and Faroese given name, and a list of people so named
• Pol (given name), usually a form of Paul or Polydore, with a list of people so named
  • Pol Pot (1925–1998), Cambodian revolutionary and Communist dictator

Surname

• Agusti Pol (born 1977), Andorran footballer
• Alejandro Pol Hurtado (born 1990), Venezuelan football midfielder
• Alexander Pol (1832–1890), Ukrainian archaeologist and geologist
• Alice Pol (born 1982), French actress
• Antoine Pol (1888–1971), French poet
• Ben Pol (born 1989), Tanzanian singer and songwriter
• David Pol (born 1973), Canadian football player
• Ernest Pohl, also known as Ernst Pol (1932–1995), Polish footballer
• Ferran Pol (born 1983), Andorran footballer
• Francisco Pol Hurtado (born 1990), Venezuelan football midfielder
• Miquel Martí i Pol (1929–2003), Catalan poet
• Nicolas Pol (born 1977), French artist
• Nicolaus Pol (c.1467–1532), Austrian physician and book collector
• Sandra de Pol (born 1975), Swiss footballer
• Santosh Pol (born 1974), Indian serial killer
• Sebastián Pol (born 1988), Argentine footballer
• Talitha Pol (1940–1971), Dutch actress and model, wife of John Paul Getty
• Victor de Pol (1865–1925), Italian-born Argentine sculptor
• Wincenty Pol (1807–1872), Polish poet and geographer

Fictional characters

• Pol (character), in Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies

Science and technology

• Pol (gene)
• POL valve, a fitting found on LPG cylinders
• Pol (HIV), a gene found in retroviruses
• Polystachya, abbreviation of a genus of orchid

Other uses

• HNoMS Pol III, a Norwegian Navy World War II patrol boat
• Pol language, a Bantu language of Cameroon
• Pol (housing), in India, a district in an "old city" area occupied by families of a particular ethnic group or caste
• POL (magazine) (1968?–1986), an Australian monthly magazine
• /pol/, the "politically incorrect" board on 4chan
• Party of the Left, in the Yale Political Union
• "Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants", Class III of U.S. Armed Forces classes of supply
• Abbreviation for politician

See also

• Van der Pol, Dutch surname
• Pole (disambiguation)
• Pohl (disambiguation)
• Poll (disambiguation)