Bana may refer to:

Languages

* Bana language of northern Cameroon * Pa Na language of China *

Phanaʼ language Phanaʼ (autonym: '); also called Bana or Pana) is a Loloish language of Laos and China. Phanaʼ is spoken by 500 people in Laos. In China, it is spoken in Mengla County, Yunnan Province (Bradley 2007). It is closely related to Sila, which is s ...

of Laos

People

* The

Bana people The Fali people (called the Bana in Nigeria)"Fali," ''The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary'' (1996) (James Stuart Olson, editor). Greenwood : p. 174-175. are any of several small ethnic groups of Africa. The Fali are concentrated ...

of West Africa * Bana (singer), balladeer from Cape Verde *

Banasura Bana, also referred to as Banasura (), is an asura king in Hindu mythology, ruling from the city of Śoṇitapura. He is described to be the son of Mahabali. His tale of battling Krishna is described in the Bhagavata Purana. Legend A mighty ...

, an asura in Hindu mythology * Bāṇabhaṭṭa, 7th-century Indian writer *

Bana, Burkina Faso Bana is a town in the Bana Department of Balé Province in southern Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to t ...

, one of the 10 communes of the Balé Province of Burkina Faso * Eric Bana (born 1968), Australian actor and comedian * Bana, slayer of St.

Juthwara Saint Juthwara or Jutwara was a virgin and martyr from Dorset. According to her legend, she was an eighth century Saxon, and sister to Saint Sidwell, though some historians have theorised she was a Briton living in the sixth century. Her relics we ...

* Framji Cowasji Banaji (1767–1851), Indian developer of Bombay *

Mahzarin Banaji Mahzarin Rustum Banaji FBA (born 1956) is an American psychologist of Indian origin at Harvard University, known for her work popularizing the concept of implicit bias in regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, and other factors. Educati ...

(born 1956), Indian-American psychologist

Places

Bana, Guinea Bana is a village in the Nzérékoré Prefecture in the Nzérékoré Region The Nzérékoré Region ( nqo, ߒߛߙߍߜߍ߬ߘߍ߫ ߕߌ߲߬ߞߎߘߎ߲) is a region in the southern part of Guinea. Its capital and largest city is Nzérékoré. ...

Bana, Rajasthan Bana is a village situated in Bikaner district in Rajasthan, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the mos ...

, in India *

Bana, Hungary Bana is a village located in Komárom-Esztergom County, which is located in northwestern Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered ...

, a village *

Bana, Cameroon Bana is a sub-prefecture and commune in the West Province of Cameroon, some 8 km east of Bafang and 2 km south-west of Babouantou. Geography Bana is accessed by road P15 which comes from Bamena in the east which passes through the hea ...

, a village *

Bana, Niger Bana, Niger is a village and rural commune in Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languages

, a commune and village *

Bana Cathedral Bana ( ka, ბანა; hy, Բանակ ''Banak''), also known by the modern Turkish designation Penek Kilisesi, is a ruined early medieval cathedral in present-day Erzurum Province, eastern Turkey, in what had formerly been a historical marchla ...

, a ruined medieval Christian cathedral in northeastern Turkey *

Bana Kingdom The Bana was a dynasty based in South India, who claimed descent from king Mahabali. The dynasty takes its name from Bana, the son of Mahabali. The Banas faced opposition from several neighbouring dynasties and served some major dynasties such as ...

, an ancient dynasty of South India *

Bana Rural LLG Bana Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New ...

, an administrative division of Papua New Guinea

Other

Basic analog loop A dry loop is an unconditioned leased pair of telephone line from a telephone company. The pair does not provide dial tone or battery (continuous electric potential), as opposed to a wet pair, a line usually without dial tone but with battery. ...

, a type of leased telecommunications line * ''Bana'' (fly), a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae * ''Bana'', a 2019 album by

Danheim Danheim (real name Mike Schæfer Olsen; born in 1985, Brøndby, Denmark) is a Danish ambient and Nordic folk musician. Works and style Olsen was born in Copenhagen in 1985 and produced mostly in the electronic genre until 2016, when a stron ...

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