Kong may refer to:

Places

* Kong Empire (1710–1895), a former African state covering north-eastern Côte d'Ivoire and much of Burkina Faso * Kong, Iran, a city on the Persian Gulf *

Kong, Shandong Kong () is a town in Laoling, Dezhou, in northwestern Shandong province, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 bil ...

(), a town in

Laoling Laoling (), often mispronounced as Leling, is a county-level city in the northwest of Shandong province, China, bordering Hebei province to the north. Laoling has more than 640,000 inhabitants (1999) and is under the jurisdiction of Dezhou D ...

, Shandong, China *

Kong, Ivory Coast Kong is a town in northern Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Kong Department in Tchologo Region Tchologo Region is one of the 31 regions of Ivory Coast. Since its establishment in 2011, it has been one of three regions in S ...

, a town in Savanes District, Ivory Coast *

Kong River :''Cong River (''sông Công'') is a river in Central Vietnam'' The Kong River, also known as the Xe Kong or the Se Kong ( Lao: ເຊກອງ ''Se Kong'', ( Khmer:''សេកុង''(official) or ''ស្រែគង្គ''(Khmerization)), Vi ...

, in Southeast Asia

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* King Kong, a fictional giant ape appearing in several films and other works * '' Donkey Kong'', a series of video games that feature various ape characters that use the Kong name ** Donkey Kong (character) ** Diddy Kong Donkey Kong's partner * Major T. J. "King" Kong, in the 1964 film ''

Dr. Strangelove ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'', known simply and more commonly as ''Dr. Strangelove'', is a 1964 black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and t ...

'' * the title caveman character of ''

Kong the Untamed ''Kong the Untamed'' is a comic book series published by DC Comics that ran for five issues. It was created in 1975 in comics, 1975 by writer Jack Oleck and artist Alfredo Alcala. The title character, Kong, is an intelligent caveman who is a direc ...

'', a 1975 comic book series *

Giant Robots Kongs is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. It was the sixth installment in Toei Company's Super Sentai metaseries of tokusatsu television dramas. It aired on TV Asahi from February 6, 1982 to January 29, 1983, replacing ''Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan ...

, various characters from the ''Dai Sentai Goggle-V'' series * Jake Kong, one of the three main characters from the original ''

The Ghost Busters ''The Ghost Busters'' is a live-action children's sitcom that ran on CBS in 1975, about a team of bumbling detectives who investigate ghostly occurrences. Fifteen episodes were produced. The show reunited Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch in roles ...

'' *

Mammoth Kong A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus ''Mammuthus'', one of the many genera that make up the order of trunked mammals called proboscideans. The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks an ...

, a gigantic ape monster - see '' Moonlight Mask'' * the title robotic monster of ''

Marine Kong is a 26-episode 1960 Japanese television series (told in two thirteen episode chapters) produced by Nisan Productions. It aired on the Fuji Television network every Sunday from April 3 to September 25. The series was about a giant dinosaurian robo ...

'', a Japanese TV show *

Blues Kong Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spiritual (music), spirituals, work songs, field hollers, Ring shout, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narra ...

, a blue colored bulldog/ape hybrid from ''

Android Kikaider is a ''tokusatsu'' television series based on superhero manga series of the same name by Shotaro Ishinomori. The show was produced by Toei Company and Ishimori Productions, and was broadcast in Japan on NET (now TV Asahi) from July 8, 1972, to ...

Music

* Kong (band), a Dutch progressive metal band * "Kong", a song by Tenacious D, released as a B-side on the "

POD Pod or POD may refer to: Biology * Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant * Husk or pod of a legume * Pod of whales or other marine mammals * "-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy Electronics and computing * Proper ort ...

" single * "Kong", a song by

Neneh Cherry Neneh Mariann Karlsson (born 10 March 1964), better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, occasional DJ and broadcaster. Her musical career started in London in the early 1980s, where she performed in a number of punk roc ...

from her 2018 album ''Broken Politics''

Rides

* Kong (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom), a roller coaster *

KONG (ride) KONG is a ride on the Surfside Pier at Morey's Piers seaside park. Each rider has a plane to fly around in and has steering controls. It is a typical Flying Scooters ride, manufactured by Larson International. History The original KONG ride op ...

, a ride at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey

Other

* '' Kong: The Animated Series'', an unofficial animated series based on the King Kong character * '' Kong: Skull Island'', 2017 American film

People

* Kong (surname) (孔), a Chinese and Korean surname * nickname of Gary Elkerton (born 1964), Australian surfer * nickname of Robbie Green (born 1974), English darts player * a stage name of Shawn Crahan (born 1969), American musician * Erika Shishido (born 1970), female professional wrestler who went by the ring name of "Aja Kong" * Kia Stevens (born 1977), female professional wrestler who went by the ring names of "Amazing Kong" and "Awesome Kong"

Other uses

* '' Kōng'', a concept in Chinese Zen Buddhism *

Kong Company The KONG Company (stylized as KONG) is an American company headquartered in the state of Colorado that develops designs and produces lines of dog toys and cat toys. Its primary line of product is a snowman-like chew toy for dogs also named KONG. ...

, an American dog toy producer *

Kong Inc. Kong Inc. is a software company that provides open-source platforms and cloud services for managing, monitoring, and scaling application programming interfaces (APIs) and microservices. Some of the products offered by Kong Inc. include: Kong Gat ...

, an API and cloud services company based in San Francisco *

KONG (TV) KONG (channel 16) is an independent television station licensed to Everett, Washington, United States, serving the Seattle area. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside NBC affiliate KING-TV (channel 5). Both stations share studios at the Home Plat ...

, a television station in Washington, United States