KOKOMO  , a

city and the county-seat of Howard county, Indiana, U.S.A., on the Wildcat River, about 5.o m . N. of Indianapolis . Pop . (1890), 8261; (1900), 10,609 of whom 499 were foreign-born and 359 negroes; (1910 census), 17,010 . It is served by the Lake Erie & Western, the Pittsburg Cincinnati Chicago & St Louis, and the Toledo St Louis & Western railways, and by two interurban electric lines . Kokomo is a centre of trade in agricultural products, and has various manufactures, including flint, plate and opalescent glass, &c . The total value of the factory product increased from $2,062,156 in 'goo to $3,651,105 in 1905, or 77.1 %; and in 1905 the glass product was valued at $864,567, or 23.7 % of the total . Kokomo was settled about 184o and became a city (under a state law) in 1865 . KOKO-NOR (or Kuxu-Nog) (Tsing-hai of the Chinese, and Tso-ngombo of the Tanguts), a lake of Central Asia, situated at an altitude of 9975 ft., in the extreme N.E. of Tibet, 30 M. from the W. frontier of the Chinese province of Kan-suh, in roe E. and 370 N . It lies amongst the eastern ranges of the Kuen-lun,, having the Nan-shan Mountains to the north, and the southern Kokonor range (10,000 ft.) on the south . It measures 66 m. by 40 m., and contains half a dozen islands, on one of which is a Buddhist (i.e . Lamaist) monastery, to which pilgrims resort .

The

water is salt, though an abundance of fish live in it, and it often remains frozen for three months together in winter . The surface is at times subject to considerable variations of level . The lake is entered on the west by the river Buhain-gol . The nomads who dwell round its shores are Tanguts .