Colon commonly refers to: *

Colon (punctuation) The colon is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted sentence. It is also used between hours and minutes in time, between certain elements in medical ...

(:), a punctuation mark * Colon (anatomy), a major part of the large intestine, the final section of the digestive system Colon may also refer to:

Places

* Colon, Michigan, US *

Colon, Nebraska Colon is a village in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 110 at the 2010 census. Amenities include a post office and bank branch. Colon is seven miles north of the county seat Wahoo. History First established in 1879, C ...

, US *

Kowloon Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...

, Hong Kong, spelled "Colon" in older books *

Colón, Panama Colón () is a city and seaport in Panama, beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. It is the capital of Panama's Colón Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city. Originally it was l ...

in: ** Colón Province, Panama *

Colón, Putumayo Colón is a town and municipality located in the Putumayo Department, Republic of Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Car ...

in Colombia *

Colón, Cuba Colón is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. The municipality has an area of and a population of about 71,000. The city proper, with a population of about 44,000, is the third-largest of its province. History The town wa ...

in Cuba * Colón, Venezuela in Venezuela

People and fictional characters

Colon (singer) is a Japanese singer and live streamer. He is a member of the J-pop group Strawberry Prince. Biography Colon was recruited by Nanamori to join Strawberry Prince in mid-2016. On January 27, 2021, he released his first solo album, ''Aster'' ( ...

, Japanese singer * Colón (surname) * Evelyn Colon, formerly unidentified American victim * Colons, another term for ''

Pieds-Noirs The ''Pieds-Noirs'' (; ; ''Pied-Noir''), are the people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962; the vast majority of whom departed for mainland France as soon as Alger ...

'' (European settlers in French Algeria) *

Fred Colon The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is the police force of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork in the ''Discworld'' series by the English writer Terry Pratchett. The Watch, its growth and development, and its inner workings are explored through a series ...

, a fictional character in the ''Discworld'' universe * Willie Colon (American football) (born 1983), American football player

Other uses

* Colon (letter), a colon-like character used as an alphabetic letter * Colon (rhetoric), a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete *

Colon (CONFIG.SYS directive) CONFIG.SYS is the primary configuration file for the DOS and OS/2 operating systems. It is a special ASCII text file that contains user-accessible setup or configuration directives evaluated by the operating system's DOS BIOS (typically residing ...

, usage of :label in DR DOS configuration files * ''Colon'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Leiodidae *

Colon (grape) Gros Verdot is a red French wine grape variety that was a historically important grape in the Gironde wine region of Bordeaux but plantings of the variety have been banned in the region since 1946J. Robinson, J. Harding and J. Vouillamoz ''Wine Gr ...

, a French wine grape * Colon classification, a library classification system

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