Ambo may refer to:

Places

Ambo, Kiribati South Tarawa ( gil, Tarawa Teinainano) is the capital and hub of the Republic of Kiribati and home to more than half of Kiribati's population. The South Tarawa population centre consists of all the small islets from Betio in the west to Bonriki ...

Ambo Province The Ambo Province is one of eleven Provinces of Peru, provinces of the Huánuco Region in Peru. The capital of this province is the city of Huacrachuco. Boundaries *North: Huánuco Province *East: Pachitea Province *South: Pasco Region *West: Laur ...

, Huanuco Region, Peru ** Ambo District **

Ambo, Peru Ambo ( qu, Ampuq) is a town in central Peru. Ambo is the capital of the province Ambo in the region Huánuco. It was the birthplace of Bishop Ricardo Durand Flórez, third Bishop of Callao Callao () is a Peruvian seaside city and Regions of ...

, capital of Ambo District * Ambo Town, a town in

Oromia Region Oromia (Amharic: ) ( om, Oromiyaa) is a regional state in Ethiopia and the homeland of the Oromo people. The capital of Oromia is Addis Ababa. It is bordered by the Somali Region to the east; the Amhara Region, the Afar Region and the Benish ...

al State, Ethiopia **

Ambo, Ethiopia Ambo ( om, Amboo) is a town in west-central Ethiopia. Located in the West Shewa Zone of Oromia Region, west of Addis Ababa, this town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2,101 meters. Ambo is known for its mineral water, whic ...

, a capital of West Shewa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia *

Kom Ombo Kom Ombo (Egyptian Arabic: ; Coptic: ; Ancient Greek: or ; or Latin: and is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo. It was originally an Egyptian city called Nubt, meaning City of Gold (not to be confused with the ...

or , a town in Egypt known for its ancient Greek temple *

Wendens Ambo Wendens Ambo is a village in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The population at the 2011 census was measured at 473. Its name originates from the merging of two originally separate villages called Wenden Magna (or Great Wenden) and We ...

, village in Essex, England

Religion

Ambo (liturgy) The ambon or ambo ( gr, ἄμβων, meaning "pulpit"; Slavonic: ''amvón'') in its modern usage is a projection coming out from the soleas (the walkway in front of the iconostasis) in an Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic ...

or ambon, in Eastern orthodoxy the elevated area in front of the Iconostasis * Ambo, a

pulpit A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church. The origin of the word is the Latin ''pulpitum'' (platform or staging). The traditional pulpit is raised well above the surrounding floor for audibility and visibility, access ...

or lectern in a church sanctuary (the official term for Catholic pulpits)

Anthropology

Ovambo language The Ovambo () language is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga. The native name for the language is ''Oshiwambo'' (also written ''Oshiv ...

, or Ambo language *

Ovambo people The Ovambo people (), also called Aawambo, Ambo, Aawambo (Ndonga, Nghandjera, Kwambi, Kwaluudhi, Kolonghadhi, Mbalantu), or Ovawambo (Kwanyama) the biggest of the Aawambo sub-tribes are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa, primarily mo ...

, or Ambo people

Arts, entertainment, and media

* "Ambo", an episode of the American television series ''Animal Kingdom'' * Ambo, a music project of computer game designer

Robyn Miller Robyn Charles Miller (born August 6, 1966) is the co-founder of Cyan Worlds (originally Cyan) with brother Rand Miller. He served as co-designer of the popular computer game ''Myst'', which held the title of best-selling computer game from it ...

Other uses

* Typhoon Ambo (disambiguation) * Ambo, in Australia, a term for an

ambulance An ambulance is a medically equipped vehicle which transports patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport. Ambulances are used to respond to medi ...

* Ambo, a variety of

potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...

* Ambo, an operation in

Conway polyhedron notation In geometry, Conway polyhedron notation, invented by John Horton Conway and promoted by George W. Hart, is used to describe polyhedra based on a seed polyhedron modified by various prefix operations. Conway and Hart extended the idea of using op ...

Ambo Declaration The Ambo Declaration was adopted at the Tarawa Climate Change Conference on 10 November 2010 by Australia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Fiji, Japan, Kiribati, Maldives, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Solomon Islands and Tonga. The declaration calls for mor ...

, adopted at the Tarawa Climate Change Conference in November 2010 *

Ambo Mineral Water Ambo Mineral Water is a brand of naturally-carbonated bottled mineral water, sourced from the springs in Ambo Senkele, near the town of Ambo in central Ethiopia. It is a popular drink in Ethiopia, and has been described as the "oldest modern mi ...

or ''Ambo wuha'', a carbonated bottled mineral water from the town of Ambo, Ethiopia *

AMBO pipeline AMBO pipeline was a planned oil pipeline from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas via the Republic of Macedonia to the Albanian Adriatic port of Vlorë. History The pipeline was proposed in 1993. On 27 December 2004, prime-ministers of Alban ...

, a planned oil pipeline to be built and operated by the US-registered Albanian Macedonian Bulgarian Oil Corporation {{Disambiguation, geo