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The Pokot people (commonly called Suk in older literature) live in the West Pokot and Baringo Districts of Kenya and in eastern Karamoja in Uganda. They speak Pokot (Kimukony), a Kalenjin language of the Southern Nilotic language family. Based on areal and cultural differences, the Pokot people can be divided into two groups: the Hill Pokot and the Plains Pokot . The Hill Pokot live in the rainy highlands in the west and in the central south of the Pokot area and are both farmers and pastoralists.

The Plains Pokot live in the dry and infertile plains, herding cows, goats and sheep. Many Pokot people from the present eastern part of the Pokot area claim that they come from the hilly areas of northern Cherengani. Halfway through the nineteenth century, they expanded their territory rapidly into the lowlands of the Kenyan Rift Valley, mainly at the expense of the Laikipia Maasai people.

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