Mon, MON or Mon. may refer to:
Places
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Mon State
Mon State ( my, မွန်ပြည်နယ်, ; mnw, တွဵုရးဍုင်မန်, italics=no) is an administrative division of Myanmar. It lies between Kayin State to the east, the Andaman Sea to the west, Bago Region to the ...
, a subdivision of Myanmar
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Mon, India
Mon (Pron:/mɒn/) is a town located in the Mon district, Mon District of the States of India, Indian state of Nagaland.
Geography
Mon is located at . It has an average elevation of 655 metres (2,148 feet).
It is situated at an altitude of 2,94 ...
, a town in Nagaland
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Mon district
Mon District (Pron:/mɒn/) is a district of Nagaland, a state in India. It is the third-largest district in Nagaland in terms of area. The district has a population of 250,260 people. Mon Town is the headquarters of the district.
History
After ...
, Nagaland
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Mon, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
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Mon, Switzerland
Mon is a village and a former municipality in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Alvaschein, Mon, Stierva, Tiefencastel, Alvaneu, Brienz/Brinzauls and Surava merge ...
, a village in the Canton of Grisons
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Anglesey
Anglesey (; cy, (Ynys) Môn ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms a principal area known as the Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island across the narrow Cymyran Strait and some islets and skerries. Anglesey island ...
, cy, Môn, links=no, an island and county of Wales
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Møn
Møn () is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007, it was a municipality in its own right but it is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg, after merging with the former municipalities of Langebæk, Præstø, and Vordingbo ...
, an island of Denmark
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Monongahela River
The Monongahela River ( , )—often referred to locally as the Mon ()—is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 river on the Allegheny Plateau in North Cen ...
, US or "The Mon"
Peoples and languages
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Mon people
The Mon ( mnw, ဂကူမည်; my, မွန်လူမျိုး, ; th, มอญ, ) are an ethnic group who inhabit Lower Myanmar's Mon State, Kayin State, Kayah State, Tanintharyi Region, Bago Region, the Irrawaddy Delta, and s ...
, an ethnic group from Burma
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Mon language
The Mon language (, mnw, ဘာသာမန်, links=no, (Mon-Thai ဘာသာမည်) ; my, မွန်ဘာသာ; th, ภาษามอญ; formerly known as Peguan and Talaing) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Mon peopl ...
, spoken in Burma and Thailand
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Mon–Khmer languages
The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are t ...
, a large language family of Mainland Southeast Asia
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Mongolian language
Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residen ...
(ISO 639 code), official language of Mongolia
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Alisa Mon
Alisa Vladimirovna Mon (born 15 August 1964) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer who became popular in the late 1980s after performing the song "Plantain". The second wave of popularity was associated with her 1997 hit "Diamond".
Early life
Sh ...
, Russian singer
Other uses
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Mon (emblem)
, also , , and , are Japanese emblems used to decorate and identify an individual, a family, or (more recently) an institution or business entity. While is an encompassing term that may refer to any such device, and refer specifically to embl ...
, Japanese family heraldic symbols
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Mon (architecture)
is a generic Japanese term for gate often used, either alone or as a suffix, in referring to the many gates used by Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and traditional-style buildings and castles.
Significance
Unlike gates of secular buildings, m ...
, gates at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and castles in Japan
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Mon (boat)
Tomako or tomoko is a large war canoe from the Solomon Islands. The name "tomako" is used in New Georgia in the Roviana language. It is also known as magoru in Marovo Island, Marovo, niabara in Vella Lavella, mon in Autonomous Region of Bougainvill ...
, a traditional war canoe of the North Solomons
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Mon (currency)
The was the currency of Japan from the Muromachi period in 1336 until the early Meiji period in 1870. It co-circulated with the new ''1 sen coin, sen'' until 1891. The Kanji for ''mon'' is and the character for currency was widely used in the C ...
, a currency used in Japan until 1870
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Môn FM
Môn FM is a bilingual community radio station serving Anglesey and Gwynedd. The station broadcasts on 96.8, 102.1 and 102.5 FM and online from studios in Llangefni town centre.
Overview
MônFM broadcasts around 80 hours a week of locally-orien ...
, a radio station serving Anglesey, Wales
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''The Gate'' (novel) (), a 1910 novel by Natsume Sōseki
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.мон
.мон is the internationalised (Cyrillic) internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mongolia. It is administered by .MN Registry, Datacom. The domain name is composed of the consonants in the three first letters of the country name. T ...
, Internet country code top-level domain for Mongolia
Abbreviations
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Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...
(IOC country codes), Europe
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Member of the Order of the Niger
Nigeria became an independent country on 1 October 1960 and in 1963 became the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The republic instituted two orders of merit: the Order of the Niger and the Order of the Federal Republic.
Award
The two highest honou ...
, national honour
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Mixed oxides of nitrogen, chemical mixture
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Monarch Airlines
Monarch Airlines, also known as Monarch, was a British Air charter, charter and scheduled airline founded by Bill Hodgson and Don Peacock and financed by the Switzerland, Swiss Sergio Mantegazza family. The company later became a low-cost air ...
(IATA code), a British airline
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Monday
Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 8601 standard, it is the first day of the week and in countries that adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is ...
, abbreviated Mon.
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Ministry of National Defence (Poland)
Ministry of National Defense (Polish: ''Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej, MON'') is the office of government in Poland under the Minister of National Defense. It is responsible for the organization and management of the Polish Armed Forces. During ...
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Monmouthshire (historic)
, Status= Historic countyCeremonial county (until 1974)Administrative county (1889–1974)
, Start= 1535
, Origin= Laws in Wales Act 1535
, Motto= Faithful to both (Utrique Fidelis) ...
(Chapman code), a Welsh historic county
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Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire ( cy, Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south-east of Wales. The name derives from the historic county of the same name; the modern county covers the eastern three-fifths of the historic county. The largest town is Abergavenny, with ...
(ISO 3166 code GB-MON), a Welsh local government area
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Monoceros
Monoceros (Greek: Μονόκερως, "unicorn") is a faint constellation on the celestial equator. Its definition is attributed to the 17th-century Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius. It is bordered by Orion to the west, Gemini to the north, ...
, a constellation
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Monon Railroad
The Monon Railroad , also known as the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway from 1897 to 1971, was an American railroad that operated almost entirely within the state of Indiana. The Monon was merged into the Louisville and Nashville Ra ...
(reporting mark), a former railroad in Indiana
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Monsanto
The Monsanto Company () was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best known product is Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, developed in th ...
, NYSE
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MON 810 The MON 810 corn is a genetically modified maize used around the world. It is a ''Zea mays'' line known as YieldGard from the company Monsanto.Van Rie J. et al. 1989. Specificity of Bacillius thuringiensis delta-endotoxins. Eur J Biochem 186: 239-24 ...
, a Monsanto genetically modified crop
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MON 863
MON 863 is a genetically engineered variety of maize produced by Monsanto. It is genetically altered to express a modified version of Cry3Bb1, a delta endotoxin which originates from ''Bacillus thuringiensis''. This protects the plant from corn ro ...
, a Monsanto genetically modified crop
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Motor octane number
An octane rating, or octane number, is a standard measure of a fuel's ability to withstand compression in an internal combustion engine without detonating. The higher the octane number, the more compression the fuel can withstand before detonating. ...
, an octane rating for petrol/gasoline
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Music On! TV
, also known as , is a Japanese music cable television network operated by , a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Inc. (SMEJ).
Its motto is We Believe in Music. , M-On, a Japanese TV channel
See also
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Mons (disambiguation)
Mons (; German language, German and nl, Bergen, ; Walloon language, Walloon and pcd, Mont) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Hainaut Province, province of Hainaut ...
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Japanese mon (disambiguation)
Japanese mon can refer to:
* Japanese mon (currency) (文), used in Japan until 1870.
* Mon (emblem) (紋), Japanese family heraldic symbols
* The Gate (novel), ''The Gate'' (novel) or ''Mon'' ( ja, 門, link=no), a 1910 novel by Natsume Sōseki
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文 (disambiguation)
文 (pinyin ''wén'') is Kangxi radical (no. 67). The Chinese character 文 ''wén'' means "literature" or "culture", and may also be a Chinese surname.
文 may refer to:
*the Chinese for "literature", see Chinese literature
*the Chinese for ...
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