Kora

Kora may refer to:

Places

India

• Kora, Bardhaman, West Bengal
• Kora, Bharuch, Gujarat
• Korha, Katihar, also known as Kora, in 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 National Park, Coast Province, Kenya
• Kora, Mali, a village
• Kora, Jhelum, a village in Pakistan

Music

For musicians, see the People section below.

• 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), released in 2007

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
• Kora (tribe), an indigenous tribe of India and Bangladesh
• Kora of Sicyon (fl. c. 650 BC), first female artist for whom there is evidence
• Kora Boufflert (born 1966), French racewalker
• Kora Karvouni (born 1980), Greek stage and television actress
• Bil Aka Kora (born 1971), musician from Burkina Faso
• Kengo Kora (born 1987), Japanese actor
• Olga Jackowska (1951–2018), a Polish rock singer and songwriter known as Kora

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
• Kora (FinTech), a pan-African payment infrastructure.

See also

• All pages with titles containing Kora
• Kora kora, a traditional canoe in the Moluccas, Indonesia
• Koras or Kurash or Köräş, a wrestling sport of Central Asia
• Khôra, a Greek philosophical term or the territory of an Ancient Greek polis outside the city proper
• Cora (disambiguation)
• Possible variant or similar spellings of place names in India:
  • Koda (disambiguation), variant spelling of Kora
  • Korha (disambiguation)
  • Korra (disambiguation)
  • Khori (disambiguation)
  • Khora (disambiguation)
• Kura, a territorial division