Mina may refer to:

Places

Iran

Minaq Minaq ( fa, مينق, also Romanized as Mīnaq and Meynaq; also known as Meyna, Mīna, and Minar) is a village in Bedevostan-e Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Heris County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, off ...

, East Azerbaijan * Mina, Fars * Mineh, Lorestan Province * Mina, Razavi Khorasan * Mehneh, Razavi Khorasan Province

United States

* Mina, California *

Mina, Nevada Mina is a census-designated place in Mineral County in west-central Nevada, United States. It is located along U.S. Route 95 (38° 23' 25" N 118° 06' 30" W) at an elevation of . The 2010 population was 155. History Mina was founded as a railro ...

Mina, New York Mina is a town in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 1,004 at the 2020 census. It is at the western county border and state line. The town is best known as a summer resort area, centered on the hamlet of Findley Lake. ...

* Mina, Ohio * Mina, South Dakota

Ports

Al-Mina :'' Al Mina, Tyre is a spectacular and more familiar Roman site near Tyre.'' Al-Mina (Arabic: "the port") is the modern name given by Leonard Woolley to an ancient trading post on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, in the estuary of the ...

, a modern name given to an ancient coast settlement in Syria *

El Mina, Lebanon El-Mina or El Mina (Arabic: الميناء / ALA-LC: ''al-Mīnā’'', which means "the harbour"), is a coastal independent town in Tripoli, Northern Lebanon. El-Mina occupies the location of the old Phoenician city of Tripoli. It acts as the ha ...

, the original site of the harbor of the Phoenician city of Tripoli

Elsewhere

Elmina Elmina, also known as Edina by the local Fante, is a town and the capital of the Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District on the south coast of Ghana in the Central Region, situated on a bay on the Atlantic Ocean, west of Cape Coast. Elmina w ...

, Ghana, a modern town which grew around the first European settlement in sub-Saharan Africa * Mina 3, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina * Mina, Burkina Faso, village in Balé Province, Burkina Faso * Mina, Iloilo, a municipality in Iloilo, Philippines * Mina, Nuevo León, a municipality in Nuevo León, Mexico *

Mina, Saudi Arabia Mina ( ar, مِنَى, translit=Minā), also known as Muna ( ar, مُنَى, Munā), and commonly known as the "City of Tents" is a valley and neighborhood located in the Masha'er district in the Makkah Province of Saudi Arabia, southeast of the ...

Mina River (Indonesia) The Mina River (''Noel Mina'') is a river of Timor, in the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, about 2000 km east of the capital Jakarta. Above this river also stretches the Noelmina Bridge which connects Kupang with the South Cent ...

Abu Dhabi Vegetable Market The Abu Dhabi Vegetable Market (aka Al Mina Fruit & Vegetable Market or Souk) is the main vegetable market in central Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. As well as stalls selling fresh fruit and vegetables in general, the market also features a r ...

or Al Mina Fruit & Vegetable Market, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Languages

Hina language The Mina language, also known by the names Hina and Besleri, is a Chadic language spoken in Northern Cameroon by 10,000 people. Speakers of Mina are generally bilingual, with Fulfulde (Fula) being the second language. Fulfulde is often joined by ...

, a language of Cameroon *

Gen language Gen (also called Gɛ̃, Gɛn gbe, Gebe, Guin, Mina, Mina-Gen, and Popo) is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen is a tonal language. History The Gen-Mina originated from Ac ...

or Mina, the language of the Mina people in the southern Togo *

Mina (Louisiana) The Mina were a well-organized African-American community of people in Louisiana enslaved from the Bight of Benin The Bight of Benin or Bay of Benin is a bight in the Gulf of Guinea area on the western African coast that derives its name from t ...

, a language community in Louisiana

People

Mina (given name) Mina is a given name with a variety of origins, used as a feminine name in some cultures and a masculine name in others. Egypt Mina, Coptic Μήνης is a male given name for Egyptian Coptic Christians. Mina in the Coptic language (derived fr ...

, a given name (and list of people and characters with that name) *

Mina (surname) Mina is a surname. People bearing the name include: * Ara Mina, Filipina actress * Denise Mina, Scottish crime writer * Francisco Espoz y Mina, Spanish general, uncle of Francisco Javier Mina * Francisco Javier Mina, Spanish soldier who fought i ...

, a surname (and list of people with that name) *

Mina (Italian singer) Mina Anna Maria Mazzini (born 25 March 1940) or Mina Anna Quaini (for the Swiss civil registry), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian-Swiss singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian ...

(born 1940), Italian singer * ''Mena'', an alternate transliteration of

Meena Meena () is a sub-group of Bhils. They speak Meena language. They started adopting the Brahmin worship system. Its name is also transliterated as ''Meenanda'' or ''Mina''. Historians claim that they belong to the Matsya tribe. They got the st ...

, a tribe in the Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh regions of India *

Mina (German singer) Mina (born 4 October 1993) is a German pop musician who became famous because of a video at the online portal Myvideo which was watched by four million viewers. Biography Mina was born in Munich, where she attended a private school. When she ...

(born 1993), German pop musician *

Mina (Japanese singer) , known mononymously as Mina (; ja, ミナ), is a Japanese singer and dancer based in South Korea. She is one of the three Japanese members of the South Korean girl group Twice, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2015. Early life Mina was born ...

(born 1997), member of South Korean girl group Twice *

Mina (voice actress) , known professionally as , is a Japanese voice actress from Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. She is affiliated with Production Ace. Career In 2006, she won the Animax public audition and made her debut as voice actress. She has a wide vocal ran ...

(born 1984), Japanese voice actress *

Kang Mi-na Kang Mi-na (; born December 4, 1999), known mononymously as Mina, is a South Korean singer, rapper and actress signed under Jellyfish Entertainment. She is best known for finishing ninth in Mnet's K-pop girl group survival show ''Produce 101'' ...

(born 1999), South Korean singer known sometimes as “Mina” *

Shim Mina Shim Mina (; born December 1, 1972), known simply as Mina (미나), is a South Korean singer and dancer. She rose to fame at the World Cup in 2002, eventually deciding to become a K-pop singer. On July 7, 2018, Mina married Ryu Philip, a me ...

, South Korean singer performing as "Mina"

Fictional characters

* Mina (''Dragonlance''), a herald of the One God in ''Dragonlance'' * Mina, a Trial Captain in ''

Pokémon Sun and Moon and are 2016 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. They are the first installments in the seventh generation of the ''Pokémon'' video game series. First a ...

'' and ''

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon and are 2017 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. Part of the seventh generation of the ''Pokémon'' video game series, the games are enhanced versions o ...

'' * Mina in ''

Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sōichirō Yamamoto. The series features the daily life of Takagi, who loves to tease her classmate Nishikata, and Nishikata's failed attempts to get back at her. In North America, the ...

Music

* ''Mina'' (1964 album) * ''Mina'' (1971 album) * ''Mina'' (1974 album) * Mina (drum), a Venezuelan drum

MINA

* Montenegrin News Agency, Montenegrin national news agency *

MINA (gene) Ribosomal oxygenase 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''RIOX2'' gene In biology, the word gene (from , ; "...Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word gene to describe the Mendelian units of heredity..." meaning ''generation'' or '' ...

, a gene which encodes RIOX2, formerly known as MYC-induced nuclear antigen *

Apache MINA Apache MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications) is an open source Java network application framework. MINA can be used to create scalable, high performance network applications. MINA provides unified APIs for various transpor ...

, Apache Software Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Application

Other uses

Mīna Mīna, or Meena, is a month in the Indian solar calendar. It corresponds to the zodiacal sign of Pisces, and overlaps with about the later half of March and about the early half of April in the Gregorian calendar. First day of the Meena month, ca ...

, a month in the Hindu calendar * Mina, a month in the Darian calendar *

Mina (unit) The mina (also mĕnē, Aramaic; ) is an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight, which was divided into 60 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, was also a unit of currency. History The word mina comes from the ancient Semitic root / 'to count', Akkad ...

, an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight and currency * ''Mina'' (TV series), a Korean drama * Mina (Mexico City Metrobús), a BRT station in Mexico City