Mena or MENA may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Mena'' (album), a 2010 album by Javiera Mena *

MENA (news) The Middle East News Agency (MENA) is a news agency based in Egypt. It is run by the Egyptian government. History and profile The MENA was founded on 15 December 1955 as a joint stock company owned by Egyptian press establishments. The agency, b ...

, an Egyptian publicly funded news agency *''

Mena Report ''Al Bawaba'' (البوابة, Arabic for "the portal" or "the gate") is a news, blogging and media website headquartered in Amman, Jordan with an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Since 2001 it publishes the Mena Report, which covers the ...

'', a business news source *''Mena'', the original title of the 2017 film '' American Made'', about the life of drug smuggler Barry Seal starring Tom Cruise

People

Mena (surname) Mena (also: es, de Mena, eu, Menaca) is a Spanish surname that originates as both a Basque and Spanish Sephardic surname. It is also a given name, Mena. The Meena tribe of India is also spelled as Mena. Basque meaning Found in the valley of Men ...

, list of people with the surname * Mena (given name), list of people with the given name

Places

MENA MENA, an acronym in the English language, refers to a grouping of countries situated in and around the Middle East and North Africa. It is also known as WANA, SWANA, or NAWA, which alternatively refers to the Middle East as Western Asia (or a ...

, acronym for ''Middle East and North Africa''

Americas

* Francisco Z. Mena Municipality in Puebla, Mexico *

Juan de Mena, Paraguay Juan de Mena is a Districts of Paraguay, district of Cordillera Department in Paraguay. It is named after the Spanish Renaissance poet Juan de Mena, and is located 88 metres above sea level, surrounded by the lowlands of the Rivers Manduvira, Yhaguy ...

, a district of Cordillera Department *

Mena, Arkansas Mena ( ) is a city in Polk County, Arkansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Polk County. The population was 5,558 as of the 2020 census. Mena is included in the Ark-La-Tex socio-economic region. Surrounded by the Ouachita National F ...

, United States **

Mena School District Mena School District is a school district in Polk County, Arkansas. On July 1, 2004, the Hatfield School District was consolidated into the Mena School District.Abu Mena Abu Mena (also spelled ''Abu Mina'' ; ar, أبو مينا ) was a town, monastery complex and Christian pilgrimage centre in Late Antique Egypt, about southwest of Alexandria, near New Borg El Arab city. Its remains were designated a Worl ...

, pilgrimage center in Late Antique Egypt * Mena House Hotel, a resort near Cairo, Egypt *

Mena River 220px, The Mena River shown as a tributary of the Ganale River in Bale Zone, eastern Ethiopia">Bale_Zone.html" ;"title="Ganale River in Bale Zone">Ganale River in Bale Zone, eastern Ethiopia The Mena is a river of eastern Ethiopia. It is located ...

, in eastern Ethiopia * Mena, Koulikoro, Mali * Mena, Sikasso, Mali

Asia

Mena Station is a railway station in Rankoshi, Isoya District, Hokkaidō, Japan. Lines *Hokkaido Railway Company **Hakodate Main Line The is a railway line connecting the cities of Hakodate and Asahikawa via Sapporo in Hokkaido, Japan. It is one of t ...

, railway station in Rankoshi, Isoya District, Hokkaidō, Japan *

Mena, Badin Mena, aka Mena jo Goth, is a village and deh in Tando Bago taluka of Badin District The Badin District ( sd, ضلعو بدين, ur, ) is a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The total area of the district is 6,726 square kilometers ...

, a village in Sindh, Pakistan

Europe

* Mena, Cornwall, hamlet in England *

Valle de Mena The Mena Valley () is a municipality of the province of Burgos in Spain. It is located in the autonomous community of Castile and León, bordering the provinces of Alava, Biscay and Cantabria Cantabria (, also , , Cantabrian: ) is an auto ...

(Valley of Mena), a municipality in Burgos, Spain *

Mena Raion Mena Raion ( uk, Менський район) was a Raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre was located at the city of Mena, Ukraine, Mena. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as p ...

, abolished district of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine **

Mena, Ukraine Mena ( ) is a city in Koriukivka Raion, Chernihiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Mena urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Until 18 July 2020, Mena was the administrative center of Mena Raion. ...

, city in Chernihiv Oblast * Mena River, a river in Ukraine, a tributary of

Desna River The Desna (russian: Десна́; uk, Десна) is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper. Its name means "right hand" in the Old East Slavic language. It has a length of , and its drainage basin covers .

In Space

Mena (Mercurian crater) Mena is a crater in the Beethoven quadrangle on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Mena is named for the Spanish poet Juan de Mena, who lived from 1411 to 1456. Mena lies on the eastern rim of a lar ...

, on Mercury *

Mena (Martian crater) Mena or MENA may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Mena'' (album), a 2010 album by Javiera Mena *MENA (news), an Egyptian publicly funded news agency *''Mena Report'', a business news source *''Mena'', the original title of the 2017 fil ...

, on Mars

Science and technology

MENA (cable system) Middle East North Africa (MENA) is a submarine communications cable system that is planned to connect Italy, Greece, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and India. It will be about long and is planned to deliver up to 5.76 terabits per second. In 2018 ...

, a planned submarine telecommunications link between Italy and India *Mena, one of three members of the

Ena/Vasp homology proteins ENA/VASP homology proteins or EVH proteins are a family of closely related proteins involved in cell motility in vertebrate and invertebrate animals. EVH proteins are modular proteins that are involved in actin polymerization, as well as interac ...

in mice *''Mena'', a genus of

sea anemone Sea anemones are a group of predation, predatory marine invertebrates of the order (biology), order Actiniaria. Because of their colourful appearance, they are named after the ''Anemone'', a terrestrial flowering plant. Sea anemones are classifi ...

Mythological uses

*Mena or Dea Mena, a Roman goddess of menstruation; see

List of Roman birth and childhood deities In ancient Roman religion, birth and childhood deities were thought to care for every aspect of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and child development. Some major deities of Roman religion had a specialized function they contributed to this ...

*Mena, or Menavati or Mainavati, a Hindu goddess, wife of the mountain king Himalaya-personified as

Himavan Himavat (Sanskrit: हिमवत्, lit. ''frosty'') is the personification of the Himalayan mountains in Hinduism. He is the guardian deity of the Himalayas, and finds mention in the epic ''Mahabharata'' and other Hindu scriptures. Nomencla ...