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Places

India

* Munda, a village in

Hanumangarh district Hanumangarh district is a district in the state of Rajasthan in India. The city of Hanumangarh is the district headquarters and its largest city. District profile The district is located in the extreme north of Rajasthan. It has an area of 12 ...

, Rajasthan, India * Munda Majra, a former village in Haryana, India * Munda Pind, a village in Punjab, India

Pakistan

* Munda, a village near Bilyamin in

Kurram Valley Kurram District ( ps, کرم ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Kohat Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.The name Kurram comes from the river Kuramá ( ps, کورمه) in Pashto which itself derives from the Sanskrit name Kr ...

, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan *

Munda, Lower Dir Munda is a union council of Lower Dir District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Lower Dir District has 37 union councils with a population of 797,852, according to the 1998 census report. The population growth rate of the Lower Dir District was ...

, a union council in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan *

Munda Tehsil Munda is an administrative subdivision (Tehsil) of Lower Dir District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Munda is an administrative Tehsil under the jurisdiction of Samar Bagh, sub-division of Lower Dir District. It is listed among: ...

, an administrative subdivision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan

Other places

* Munda, the Latin name of the

Mondego River The Rio Mondego () or Mondego River is the longest river entirely within Portuguese territory. It has its source in Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range in mainland Portugal (i.e. excluding the Portuguese islands). It runs from the Go ...

, the largest river in present-day Portugal *

Munda, Solomon Islands Munda is the largest settlement on the island of New Georgia in the Western Province of Solomon Islands, and consists of a number of villages. It is located at the southwestern tip (called Munda Point) of the western end of New Georgia, and the l ...

, a settlement on the island of New Georgia in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands *

Mundabullangana, Western Australia Mundabullangana is a settlement in Western Australia, located approximately 100 km south-west of Port Hedland. It is the site of a 225,000 hectare cattle station. Mundabullangana is more commonly known as Munda Station. In 1872, brothers ...

, is commonly referred to as Munda.

Munda people

Munda people The Munda people are an Austroasiatic speaking ethnic group of India. They predominantly speak the Mundari language as their native language, which belongs to the Munda subgroup of Austroasiatic languages. The Munda are found mainly concentr ...

, an ethnic group of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region of eastern India and parts of Bangladesh *

Munda peoples The Munda peoples of eastern and central parts of the Indian subcontinent are any of several tribal groups who natively speak Munda languages of Austro-asiatic language family, formerly also known as Kolarian, and spoken by about nine million p ...

, list of peoples speaking Munda languages *

Munda languages The Munda languages are a group of closely related languages spoken by about nine million people in India and Bangladesh. Historically, they have been called the Kolarian languages. They constitute a branch of the Austroasiatic language famil ...

, a language family spoken by about nine million people in eastern and central India *

Mundari language Mundari (Munɖari) is a Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family spoken by the Munda tribes in eastern Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. It is closely related to Santali. Mundari Bani, a script specifically to wr ...

, a member of the Munda language family, spoken by the Munda people

Other uses

Battle of Munda The Battle of Munda (17 March 45 BC), in southern Hispania Ulterior, was the final battle of Caesar's civil war against the leaders of the Optimates. With the military victory at Munda and the deaths of Titus Labienus and Gnaeus Pompeius (elde ...

, took place on March 17, 45 BC in the plains of Munda, modern southern Spain *

Battle of Munda Point The Battle of Munda Point was a battle, from 22 July – 5 August 1943, between primarily United States Army and Imperial Japanese Army forces during the New Georgia Campaign in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific War. The battle took place follo ...

, a World War II battle * Munda Dam, previous name of Mohmand Dam *

Munda (Hinduism) In Hinduism, in the Devi Mahatmya, Chanda and Munda are asuras (demons) in the service of Sumbha and Nishumbha. After the death of Dhumralochana, Sumbha sent them to fight Devi Kaushiki. After Chanda and Munda approached Devi Kaushiki, she tu ...

, a monster that was killed by Chamunda Devi in Hinduism * Munda, an early chieftain (reigned 1006–1026) of the

Hoysala Empire The Hoysala Empire was a Kannada people, Kannadiga power originating from the Indian subcontinent that ruled most of what is now Karnataka, India, Karnataka between the 10th and the 14th centuries. The capital of the Hoysalas was initially loca ...

, in modern Karnataka, India * ''Munda'' (alga), a

Eustigmatophyte Eustigmatophytes are a small group (17 genera; ~107 species) of eukaryotic forms of algae that includes marine, freshwater and soil-living species. All eustigmatophytes are unicellular, with coccoid cells and polysaccharide cell walls. Eusti ...

, in

Eustigmatales Eustigmatophytes are a small group (17 genera; ~107 species) of eukaryotic forms of algae that includes marine, freshwater and soil-living species. All eustigmatophytes are unicellular, with coccoid cells and polysaccharide cell walls. Eusti ...

order * ''Munda'' (insect), a genus of crickets, in the subfamily

Podoscirtinae Podoscirtinae is a subfamily of crickets in the family Gryllidae. Tribes and Genera The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists: Aphonoidini Auth.: Gorochov, 2008 * subtribe Diatrypina Desutter-Grandcolas, 1988 – South America # '' Diatrypa'' Sa ...

USS Munda USS ''Munda'' (CVE-104) was the last of fifty United States Navy built for service during World War II. She was named after the Battle of Munda Point, which occurred on the island New Georgia, a part of the Solomon Islands in 1943. The ship wa ...