Official Name: | Yirol County |
Settlement Type: | County |
Pushpin Map: | South Sudan |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in South Sudan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | South Sudan |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Bahr el Ghazal |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Lakes State |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 4,851 |
Population As Of: | 2017 estimate[1] |
Population Total: | 155,870 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | CAT |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Yirol West County is an administrative area in Lakes State, South Sudan.[2] [3] it is one the eight counties of Lakes State.Yirol West County border Yirol East County to the east, Awerial County to the south, Terekeka county and Mvolo County to the South west and Rumbek East County to the west.
There are seven payams in Yirol County.
The district's yearly temperature is 32.05°C (89.69°F) and it is 2.55% higher than South Sudan's averages. Yirol typically receives about 97.39 millimeters (3.83 inches) of precipitation and has 128.95 rainy days (35.33% of the time) annually.[4]