Gaya may refer to:

Geography

Czech Republic

*Gaya (German and Latin),

Kyjov (Hodonín District) Kyjov (; german: Gaya or Geyen) is a town in Hodonín District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 11,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Ad ...

, a town

Guinea

* Gaya or

Gayah Gayah is a town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word ...

, a town

India

Gaya, India Gaya ( IAST: ) is a city, municipal corporation and the administrative headquarters of Gaya district and Magadh division of the Indian state of Bihar. Gaya is south of Patna and is the state's second-largest city, with a population of 470,839 ...

, a city in Bihar **

Gaya Airport Gaya Airport is an international airport serving Gaya, Bihar, India. This airport is 12 kilometres south-west of Gaya and 5 kilometres away from the temple city of Bodh Gaya, from where Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment. Overview Gaya ...

Bodh Gaya Bodh Gaya is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous as it is the place where Gautama Buddha is said to have attained Enlightenment ( pi, ...

, a town in Bihar near Gaya *

Gaya district } Gaya district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar. It was officially established on 3 October 1865. The district has a common boundary with the state of Jharkhand to the south. Gaya city is both the district head ...

, Bihar

Niger

* Gaya, Niger, a city in the Dosso region *

Gaya Department Gaya is a department of the Dosso Region in Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languages

, a department of the Dosso Region

Nigeria

Gaya, Nigeria Gaya is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Gaya in the north of the area. It has an area of 613 km and a population of 201,016 in the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 713. Histo ...

, a city in Kano State

Malaysia

Pulau Gaya Gaya Island ( ms, Pulau Gaya) is a sizeable Malaysian island of 1,465 ha, just 10 minutes off Kota Kinabalu, Sabah and forms part of the Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park. Gaya Island derived its name from the Bajau word "Gayo" which means ''b ...

(Gaya Island), a sizeable Malaysian island near the coast of Sabah

South Korea

Gaya confederacy Gaya (, ) was a Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period. The traditional period used by historians for Gaya chronology is AD 42–53 ...

, an ancient league of statelets on the Korean peninsula ** Geumgwan Gaya, the ruling city-state of the Gaya confederacy during the Three Kingdoms Period *

Gaya Line The Gaya Line is a railway line of Korail in Busan Metropolitan City, South Korea, connecting Sasang on the Gyeongbu Line with Beom-il on the Donghae Line via Gaya, where the line also connects to the Bujeon Line. History The line was origi ...

, a railway line serving Busan * Gayasan National Park, a national park in South Gyeongsang

Spain

* Gayá River

People

Forename

* Gaya Herrington (born 1981), Dutch econometricist, sustainability researcher and activist

Surname

Eiji Gaya is a former Japanese football player. Playing career Gaya was born in Muroran on 8 February 1969. After graduating from high school, he joined Sumitomo Metal (later ''Kashima Antlers'') in 1987. He gradually got an opportunity to play in the m ...

(born 1969), Japanese football player * Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya (born 1952), Nigerian politician and architect * Ramón Gaya (1910–2005), Spanish artist * José Luis Gayà (born 1995), Spanish footballer * Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño (1913–1976) was a Spanish art historian, author, teacher, and art critic.

Other uses

* Gaya (plant), a genus of plants in the family ''Malvaceae'' *

Gaya Quartet “Gaya“ ( az, Qaya) were an Azerbaijani vocal quartet consisting of Arif Hajiyev, Teymur Mirzoyev, Lev Yelisovetski and Rauf Babayev. Quartet was active from 1972 to 1988. They sang in multiple languages, including Azerbaijani, Spanish, Polish ...

, an Azerbaijani singing group * Gaya language, the language of the Korean Gaya confederacy * Gaya (Seediq), law of the

Seediq people The Seediq (sometimes Sediq, Seejiq, pronounced: , , ; ; pinyin: Sàidékèzú) are a Taiwanese indigenous people who live primarily in Nantou County and Hualien County. Their language is also known as Seediq. They were officially recognized as ...

* Gaya melon, a honeydew melon cultivar