Kora

Kora may refer to

Places

India

• Kora, Bardhaman, West Bengal
• Kora, Bharuch, Gujarat
• Kora, Katihar, Bihar
• Kora, Kendrapara, Odisha
• Kora, Wardha, Maharastra
• Kora, Tumakuru, Karnataka
• Toyaguda, Adilabad, Telangana, formerly called Kora

Elsewhere

• Kora, Burkina Faso, a town
• Kora, Ethiopia, a town
• Kureh, Markazi, a village in Markazi Province, Iran, also known as Kora
• Kōra, Shiga, a town in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
• Kora, Mali, a village
• Kora National Park, Coast Province, Kenya

Music

• Kora (instrument), a stringed musical instrument of West African origin
• Kora Awards, music awards for African music
• Kora (band), a New Zealand reggae band
  • Kora (album), Kora album released in 2007
• Kora, a pseudonym of Polish rock singer Olga Jackowska

Buildings

• Kōra taisha, a Shinto shrine in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
• Kora Temple, a Masonic building in Lewiston, Maine

Languages

• Kora or Aka-Kora language, formerly spoken in the Andaman Islands, India
• !Kora or Korana language, spoken in South Africa
• Kora or Koda language, spoken in India and Bangladesh

People

• Kora people, also Cora or Aka-Kora, an indigenous tribe of the Andaman Islands
• !Ora people, a nation of Khoe-speaking clans of South Africa, also known as !Orana, Korana, or Koraqua
• Kora of Sicyon (c. 650 B.C.), credited with the invention of modeling in relief
• Bil Aka Kora (born 1971), musician from Burkina Faso
• Kengo Kora (born 1987), Japanese actor
• Kora Karvouni (born 1980), Greek actress

Other uses

• Kora class corvette, a type of ship used by the Indian Navy
  • INS Kora (P61), lead ship of the class
• Kora (pilgrimage), a type of pilgrimage in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
• Made in Japan: Kora!, a 2011 Japanese film directed by Banmei Takahashi
• KORA-FM, a radio station in Bryan, Texas
• Kora (gastropod), genus of land snails

See also

• Kora kora, a traditional canoe in the Moluccas, Indonesia
• Koras or Kurash or Köräş, a wrestling sport of Central Asia
• Gravi-kora, a variant of gravikord, a kora-inspired electric harp by Robert Grawi
• Khora or Khôra, a Greek philosophical term
• Cora (disambiguation)
• Cora (name)
• Possible variant or similar spellings of place names in India:
  • Koda (disambiguation), variant spelling of Kora
  • Kora Amanikere, Tumkur
  • Kora Jahanabad, Fatehpur, also spelled Koda Jahanabad
  • Kora Khargi, Sitamarhi
  • Chaul Kora, Sivasagar ("No.1" in census reports), Assam state
  • Charul Kora, Sivasagar ("No.2" in census reports), Assam state
  • Korha (disambiguation)
  • Korra (disambiguation)
  • Khori (disambiguation)
  • Khora (disambiguation)