Kora may refer to:

Places

India

Kora, Bardhaman Kora is a village in the Jamalpur tehsil, Bardhaman district, West Bengal state, India. It is located on the Kushinguj-Amarpur road, about 75 km northwest of Kolkata (Calcutta), 50 km south of Bardhaman, and 13 km south of Jamalp ...

, West Bengal *

Kora, Bharuch Kora is a village in the Jambusar tehsil, Bharuch district, Gujarat state, India. It is located just east of the mouth of the Mahi River, about 16 km northwest of Jambusar, 70 km southwest of Vadodara, and 65 km northwest of Bharuc ...

, Gujarat * Korha, Katihar, also known as Kora, in Bihar *

Kora, Kendrapara Kora is a village in the Kendrapara, Kendrapara tehsil, Kendrapara district, Odisha state, India. It is located off the north side of the Cuttack-Kendrapara Road, about 75 km from Cuttack, 16 km beyond Kendrapara, and 16 km from P ...

, Odisha * Kora, Wardha, Maharastra * Kora, Tumakuru, Karnataka * Toyaguda, Adilabad, Telangana, formerly called Kora

Elsewhere

Kora, Burkina Faso Kora, Burkina Faso is a town in the Kongoussi Department of Bam Province in northern Burkina Faso. It has a population of 2,255.

, a town *

Kora, Ethiopia Kora is a town in central Ethiopia. It is one of a number of populated places in the country with this name. Transport The town is served by a station on the Ethio-Djibouti Railways. See also *Railway stations in Ethiopia Current railway stati ...

, a town *

Kureh, Markazi Kureh ( fa, كوره, also Romanized as Kūreh; also known as Kora and Koreh) is a village in Rudbar Rural District, in the Central District of Tafresh County, Markazi Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, ...

, a village in Markazi Province, Iran, also known as Kora *

Kōra, Shiga is a town located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 6,721 in 2619 households and a population density of 490 persons per km². The total area of the town is . Geography Kōra is the second smallest municipal ...

, a town in Shiga Prefecture, Japan *

Kora National Park Kora National Park is located in Tana River County, Kenya. The park covers an area of 1,788 square kilometres. It is located 125 kilometres east of Mount Kenya. The park was initially gazetted as a nature reserve in 1973. It was gazetted as a na ...

, Coast Province, Kenya * Kora, Mali, a village *

Kora, Jhelum Kora (Urdu کوڑہ) is a village and union council of Jhelum District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's ...

, a village in Pakistan

Music

Kora (instrument) The kora (Manding languages: ''köra'') is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It combines features of the lute and harp. Description The kora i ...

, a stringed musical instrument of West African origin *

Kora Awards The KORA All Africa Music Awards are music awards given annually for musical achievement in sub-Saharan Africa. The awards were founded in 1994 by Benin born businessman, Ernest Adjovi, after a discussion in Namibia with the country's President Ha ...

, music awards for African music *

Kora (band) Kora is a New Zealand music group, which originally consisted of four brothers from the Kora family. The band, which began in Whakatane, New Zealand fuses elements of reggae, rock, dub, roots, funk Funk is a music genre that originat ...

, a New Zealand reggae band ** ''Kora'' (album), Kora album released in 2007 * Kora, a pseudonym of Polish rock singer

Olga Jackowska Olga Aleksandra Sipowicz (née Ostrowska; 8 June 1951 – 28 July 2018), also known by the mononym of Kora, was a Polish rock vocalist and songwriter. She was the lead singer of the rock band Maanam from 1976 to 2008. Jackowska also provided ...

Buildings

Kōra taisha is a Shinto shrine in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. History Kōra was founded in the fifth century. The shrine is mentioned in the Engishiki and was one of the most important shrines in Chikugo Province. Buildings The torii of 1654 and ...

, a Shinto shrine in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan *

Kora Temple The Kora Temple is an historic Masonic building at 11 Sabattus Street in Lewiston, Maine. The temple was built in 1908 by the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The Shriners are a fraternal organization affiliated with Freemasonr ...

, a Masonic building in Lewiston, Maine

Languages

* Kora or

Aka-Kora language The Kora (Cora) language, ''Aka-Kora'', is an extinct Great Andamanese language, of the Northern group. It was spoken on the northeast and north central coasts of North Andaman and on Smith Island. It has been extinct since November 2009 when it ...

, formerly spoken in the Andaman Islands, India * !Kora or

Korana language ǃOrakobab or ''Khoemana'', also known as Korana, ǃOra, or Griqua, is a moribund Khoe language of South Africa. Names "Khoemana" (from ''khoe'' 'person' + ''mana'' 'language') is more commonly known as either Korana (also ǃOrakobab, ǃOra, ...

, spoken in South Africa * Kora or

Koda language Koda, also known as Kora, Kaora, Korali, Korati, Kore, Mudi, or Mudikora, is an endangered Munda language of India and Bangladesh spoken by the Kora. The Kora mainly live in West Bengal, in the districts of Paschim Medinipur and Bankura, with ...

, spoken in India and Bangladesh

People

Kora people The Kora, Khora or Cora were one of the ten indigenous tribes of the Great Andamanese people, originally living on the eastern part of North Andaman Island in the Indian Ocean. The tribe is now extinct, although some of the remaining Great Andama ...

, also Cora or Aka-Kora, an indigenous tribe of the Andaman Islands *

Kora (tribe) The Kora (also known as Kuda, Kura, Kaora, Dhangar and Dhanger) are an ethnic group found in the Indian states of West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand and the Bangladeshi division of Rajshahi Division, Rajshahi. The 2011 census showed their populatio ...

, an indigenous tribe of India and Bangladesh *

Kora of Sicyon Kora may refer to: Places India * Kora, Bardhaman, West Bengal * Kora, Bharuch, Gujarat * Korha, Katihar, also known as Kora, in Bihar * Kora, Kendrapara, Odisha * Kora, Wardha, Maharastra * Kora, Tumakuru, Karnataka * Toyaguda, Adilabad, T ...

(), first female artist for whom there is evidence *

Kora Boufflert Kora Boufflert (born Sommerfeld on 23 April 1966 at the Havre) is a former French athlete, who specialized in race walking. Biography Very early on attracted by the ultra-distance walk racing (145 km at the 24 hour walk of Rouen in 19 ...

(born 1966), French racewalker *

Kora Karvouni Kora Karvouni ( el, Κόρα Καρβούνη) (born 22 April 1980 in Athens, Greece) is a Greeks, Greek stage and television actress. She graduated from thGreek National Theatre Drama Schoolwith a distinction in 2002. She has performed in vari ...

(born 1980), Greek stage and television actress *

Bil Aka Kora Bilgho Akaramata Kora, also known as Bil Aka Kora (born April 25, 1971, Pô, Burkina Faso) is a musician.Romba, C. (2006, January 30). Bil Aka Kora, artiste musician. Le Faso.net (2006). Retrieved May 18, 2007 from He was one of the 17 children o ...

(born 1971), musician from Burkina Faso *

Kengo Kora is a Japanese actor. Career Kora has gained recognition for his roles in films such as Shinji Aoyama's ''Sad Vacation'', Yukio Ninagawa's ''Snakes and Earrings'', Tran Anh Hung's '' Norwegian Wood'', Ryuichi Hiroki's ''The Egoists'', Yoshihiro ...

(born 1987), Japanese actor *

(1951–2018), a Polish rock singer and songwriter known as Kora

Other uses

* Kora class corvette, a type of ship used by the Indian Navy ** INS ''Kora'' (P61), lead ship of the class *

Kora (pilgrimage) __NOTOC__ Kora (, THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription: kor ra) is a transliteration of a Tibetan word that means "circumambulation" or "revolution". Kora is both a type of pilgrimage and a type of meditative practice in the Tibetan Buddhist or ...

, a type of pilgrimage in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition * '' Made in Japan: Kora!'', a 2011 Japanese film directed by Banmei Takahashi * KORA-FM, a radio station in Bryan, Texas * ''Kora'' (gastropod), genus of land snails *

Kora (FinTech) Kora is a pan-African payment infrastructure company headquartered in Canada with offices in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The fintech company enables local and global businesses to accept payins, make payouts, and get settled across popular pay ...

, a pan-African payment infrastructure.