Bassa may refer to:

People

* Bassa people (Cameroon) ** Basaa language, a member of the Bantu languages family *

Bassa people (Liberia) __NOTOC__ The Bassa people are a West African ethnic group primarily native to Liberia. The Bassa people are a subgroup of the larger Kru people of Liberia and Ivory Coast. They form a majority or a significant minority in Liberia's Grand Bassa ...

Bassa language The Bassa language is a Kru language spoken by about 600,000 Bassa people in Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone. Phonology Consonants * /ʄ/ can be heard as a glide intervocalically within compound words. * /ɡ͡b/ when followed by a ...

, a member of the Kru languages family **

Bassa script Bassa Vah, also known as simply ('throwing a sign' in Bassa) is an alphabetic script for writing the Bassa language of Liberia. As an old system nearing extinction in the 1900s, it was rediscovered among Bassa in Brazil and the West Indies ...

Places

* Bassa, Chamba, village in India *

Bassa, Kogi State Bassa is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria. Its northern border is the Benue River and its western border is the Niger River. Its headquarters are in the town of Oguma. It has an area of 1,925 km and a population of 139,993 at th ...

, Nigeria * Bassa, Plateau State, Nigeria *

Bassa Cove colony Buchanan ( bsq, Gbezohn), also previously known as Grand Bassa on some maps, is the third largest city in Liberia, lying on Waterhouse Bay, part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2008 census, Buchanan had a population of 34,270. Of this, 16,984 we ...

, now Buchanan, Liberia *

al-Bassa al-Bassa' ( ar, البصة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Mandatory Palestine's Acre Subdistrict. It was situated close to the Lebanese border, north of the district capital, Acre, and above sea level. The village was stormed by Hag ...

, a destroyed Palestinian village, currently located in northern Israel *

Cahora Bassa The Cahora Bassa lake—in the Portuguese colonial era (until 1974) known as Cabora Bassa, from Nyungwe ''Kahoura-Bassa'', meaning "finish the job"—is Africa's fourth-largest artificial lake, situated in the Tete Province in Mozambique. In Afr ...

, an artificial lake in Mozambique *

Grand Bassa County Grand Bassa is a Counties of Liberia, county in the west-central portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the Administrative division, first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has eight Distr ...

, Liberia * Another name for Basse Santa Su, Gambia

Other uses

British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association The British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA) is a branch of the British trade union Unite. Until 2020, it exclusively represented Cabin Crew on Eurofleet and Worldwide fleets at London Heathrow airport. However, since the ...

, a union exclusively for British Airways cabin crew * Bassa Sports Club, an association football team in Antigua and Barbuda

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