Kobo
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Kobo may refer to:
Geography
- Kobo (woreda), a district in Ethiopia
- Kobo, Ethiopia, a town
- Kōbo Dam, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
- Mount Kōbō, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
People
First name
- Kōbō Abe (1924–1993), pseudonym of Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor Kimifusa Abe
- Kōbō-Daishi, a posthumous name of Kūkai (774–835), Japanese monk, civil servant, scholar, poet, and artist
- Kōbō Kenichi (born 1973), Japanese former sumo wrestler
Surname
- Bebo Kobo, Israeli businessman
- O. D. Kobo (born 1975), Israeli businessman
- Ronny Kobo (born 1980), American fashion designer
Fictional characters
- Kobo Tabata, title character of the manga Kobo, the Li'l Rascal (Kobo-chan)
Other uses
- KOBO, a radio station in California, US
- Kobo Inc., a Canadian company, a subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten, that sells e-books and markets Kobo eReader hardware and software
- Kobo eReader, an e-reader
- KOBO (whale), a blue whale skeleton
- Kobo, the subunit of the Nigerian naira currency
See also
- Co-Bo, a wheel arrangement in the UIC classification system for railway locomotives