Kalinga may refer to:

Geography, linguistics and/or ethnology

Kalinga (historical region) Kalinga (Sanskrit: ), is a historical region of India. It is generally defined as the eastern coastal region between the Mahanadi and the Godavari rivers, although its boundaries have fluctuated with the territory of its rulers. The core terri ...

, a historical region of India ** Kalinga (Mahabharata), an apocryphal kingdom mentioned in classical Indian literature **

Kalinga script The Kalinga script or Southern Nagari is a Brahmic script used in the region of what is now modern-day Odisha, India and was primarily used to write Odia language in the inscriptions of the kingdom of Kalinga which was under the reign of early ...

, an ancient writing system invented in the ancient Kingdom of Kalinga **

Kalinga architecture The Kaḷinga architectural style is a style of Hindu architecture which flourished in the ancient Kalinga previously known as Utkal and in present eastern Indian state of Odisha. The style consists of three distinct types of temples: Rekha D ...

Kalinga (caste) Kalingi (also spelt as Kalinga & Kalinji) is a caste residing in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. They are found mainly in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Vishakapatnam, and are also found on the borderland between the districts of Gan ...

, an Indian caste found between the districts of Ganjam and Vizagapatam **

Kalinga War The Kalinga War (ended )Le Huu Phuoc, Buddhist Architecture, Grafikol 2009, p.30 was fought in ancient India between the Maurya Empire under Ashoka and the state of Kalinga, an independent feudal kingdom located on the east coast, in the pre ...

, fought between the Maurya Empire under Ashoka and the state of Kalinga * Kalinga people, an ethnic group in the Philippines ** Kalinga language, spoken in the Philippines **

Kalinga-Apayao Kalinga-Apayao () was a province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in the island of Luzon. It was formed, along with Benguet, Ifugao, and the new Mountain Province, from the earlier Mountain Province, with the passage of ...

, a former province in the Philippines ** Kalinga (province), in the Philippines *

Kalinga, Queensland Kalinga is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kalinga had a population of 2,126 people. Geography Kalinga is bounded by Kedron Brook to the north. The Kedron Brook bikeway follows the brook on the suburb's nort ...

, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia ** Kalinga Park, a park in the same suburb *

Kalingga Kalingga ( jv, Karajan Kalingga; 訶陵 ''Hēlíng'' or 闍婆 ''She-pó / She-bó'' in Chinese sources) was a 6th-century Indianized kingdom on the north coast of Central Java, Indonesia. It was the earliest Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Central ...

, an ancient Indianized kingdom in Java

Musical instruments

* ''Kalinga'' or ''galinga'', a musical instrument known otherwise as the ground bow *''Kalinga'', the sacred, dynastic drum of Rwanda, known elsewhere in Africa as

Ngoma drums Ngoma (also called engoma or ng'oma or ingoma) are musical instruments used by certain Bantu populations of Africa. ''Ngoma'' is derived from the Kongo word for "drum". Different Bantu-inhabited regions have their own traditions of percussion, wi ...

Others

* ''Kalinga'' (film), a 2006 Tamil-language film from India * ''Kalinga'' (gastropod), a genus of sea slugs * Kalinga Airlines, a private airline based in Calcutta * Kalinga Prize, a UNESCO prize awarded for the popularisation of science * Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India *

26214 Kalinga 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

, an asteroid * INS Kalinga, an Indian Navy establishment at Visakhapatnam {{disambiguation, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages