Large villages include Dhor Wang, Thorial, Duar, Wath-Thier and Bieh.

[4] Between April and November 2010, over 35 people died in the county, many of them civilians, from insurgent attacks.

There were suspicions that General Gatluak Gai, who came from Koch County, was the leader of the forces responsible for these attacks.

[5] As of January 2011 talks were in progress with different people who claimed to represent Gatluak Gai, but the situation was extremely obscure.

His second in command in the "South Sudan Liberation Army" rebel group, Marko Chuol Ruei, claimed responsibility for the death, saying Gatluak Gai had told his fighters to ignore the peace agreement.