Pol

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Pol may refer to :

Places

• Pol State, a former princely state in Gujarat, western India; originally Vijaynagar State after its first capital
• Pol, Lugo, a municipality in Spain
• River Pol, a small river in Cornwall, England
• Poland, by International Olympic Committee country code
• Pol ("bridge") in Iranian place names; see all pages beginning with Pol-e
  • Pol-e Angur, also known as Pol, village in Hormozgan, Iran
• Pemba Airport (Mozambique), IATA code

Languages

• Polish language, language code ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3
• Pol language, a Bantu language of Cameroon

People

Given name

• Pól, an Irish given name, and a list of people so named
• Pol Amat (born 1978), field hockey player from Spain
• Pol Antràs (born 1975), Spanish economist
• Pol Cruchten (born 1963), Luxembourgian film director and producer
• Pol Espargaró (born 1991), Grand Prix motorcycle racer
• Pol de Leon or Paul Aurelian, Welsh saint
• Pol Medina, Jr., creator of the Philippine daily comic Pugad Baboy
• Pol Plançon (1851–1914), French operatic bass
• Pol Pot, leader of the Cambodian Communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge
• Pol Swings (1906–1983), Belgian astrophysicist
• Pol Verschuere (born 1955), Belgian former road bicycle racer

Surname

• Agusti Pol (born 1977), Andorran footballer
• Antoine Pol (1888–1971), French poet
• Avinash Pol, Indian dentlst and social worker
• David Pol, Canadian football player
• Ernest Pohl, also known as Ernst Pol (1932–1995), Polish footballer
• Sandra de Pol (born 1975), Swiss footballer
• Van der Pol, Dutch surname
• 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
• Pol Manning, an identity assumed by the comic book hero Green Lantern

Science and technology

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

Other uses

• Abbreviation of Proof of Life (disambiguation)
• HNoMS Pol III, a Norwegian Navy World War II patrol boat
• Pol (housing), in India, a cluster with many families of a particular group
• POL (magazine), an Australian monthly magazine launched in the late 1960s
• Party of the Left or PoL, in the Yale Political Union
• /pol/, the "politically incorrect" board on 4chan and 8chan
• Port of Loading

See also

• Pol an Ionain, a cave near Doolin in County Clare, Ireland