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Pomona may refer to:


Places


Argentina

* Pomona, Río Negro


Australia

* Pomona, Queensland, Australia, a town in the Shire of Noosa * Pomona, New South Wales, Australia


Belize

* Pomona, Belize, a municipality in Stann Creek District


Mexico

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Pomona, Tabasco Pomona is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Tabasco, municipality of Tenosique, about 30 miles (50 km) east of Palenque. Its flowering was in the Late Classic period. Site Pomona is a dispersed settlement built in a fertile, ...
, a Mayan archeological site


Namibia

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Pomona, Namibia Pomona is a ghost town in southern Namibia south of Lüderitz on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 15 km south of Elizabeth Bay, Namibia, in an area called Sperrgebiet, a diamond mining zone with restricted access. Around 1910, ...


New Zealand

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Pomona Island Pomona Island is the largest island within Lake Manapouri, in Fiordland National Park, in New Zealand's South Island. With an area of , it is the largest island to be found within any New Zealand lake. The island is uninhabited, and lies clos ...
, New Zealand


South Africa

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Pomona, Kempton Park Pomona is a northerly suburb of Kempton Park, in Gauteng province, South Africa. In the late 20th century Pomona functioned mainly as agricultural small holdings, producing good fresh vegetables and fruit. Since around 2015 the area is taken ove ...


United Kingdom

* Pomona, an old name for the Mainland of Orkney * Pomona Docks, in Manchester, England


United States

* Pomona, California *
Pomona, Illinois Pomona is an unincorporated community in Pomona_Township,_Jackson_County,_Illinois, Pomona Township, Jackson County, Illinois, Jackson County, Illinois, United States. Pomona is located in the Shawnee National Forest south of Murphysboro, Illinoi ...
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Pomona, Kansas Pomona is a city in Franklin County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 884. History Pomona was founded in about 1869. It was named for Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit trees. The first post offic ...
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Pomona, Maryland Pomona is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is located at the intersection of MD-289 (Quaker Neck Road) and Pomona Road, 4.5 miles southwest of Chestertown. Pomona is home to the last remaining country store ...
* Pomona, Michigan *
Pomona, Missouri Pomona is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Howell County, Missouri, Howell County, Missouri, United States. It is located midway between Willow Springs, Missouri, Willow Springs and West Plains, ...
* Pomona, New Jersey * Pomona, New York * Pomona, Tennessee *
Pomona, Washington Pomona is an unincorporated community in Yakima County, Washington, United States, located immediately northeast of Selah. The community was established in 1885 around a train station the Northern Pacific Railway called Selah. The name was changed ...


Academic institutions

* California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, a public polytechnic university * Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California


Other uses

* Pomona (fruit survey), a treatise on or a survey of fruit varieties * Pomona (mythology), the Roman goddess of fruit and nut trees * ''Pomona'' (opera), a German-language opera by Reinhard Keiser * ''Pomona'' (stage play), by Alistair McDowall * Pomona station (disambiguation), train stations and tram stops * ''Pomona'', a ballet with music by Constant Lambert * "Pomona", a waltz by Emile Waldteufel *
Professor Pomona Sprout The following fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the ''Harry Potter'' books written by J. K. Rowling. The staff and their positions Teachers and staff members The following teachers and staff members do not ha ...
, a character from the ''Harry Potter'' series by J.K. Rowling *
32 Pomona Pomona ( ; minor planet designation: 32 Pomona) is a stony main-belt asteroid that is in diameter. It was discovered by German-French astronomer Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt on October 26, 1854, and is named after Pōmōna, the Roman godde ...
, an asteroid * The ''
Herefordshire Pomona The ''Herefordshire Pomona'' is a 19th-century catalogue of the apples and pears that were grown in the county of Herefordshire in England. It was one of the first attempts to fully catalogue the existing varieties of English fruit and has been ...
'', a nineteenth-century fruit catalogue *
Pomona Electronics Fluke Corporation is a manufacturer of industrial test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment including electronic test equipment. It was started in 1948 by John Fluke while he was employed at General Electric. History Fluke Corporation was ...
* HMS ''Pomona'' (1778) a 28 gun British naval frigate * ''Pomona'' (sternwheeler) was an American river steamboat launched in 1898 * ''Pomona'' (1181 tons) was an American owned emigrant ship that sank in 1859 with the loss of 389 lives


See also

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Pomone (disambiguation) Pomone is the name of several ships: * Four Royal Navy ships have borne the name HMS ''Pomone'': ** , a 44-gun French frigate captured on 23 April 1794 and broken up in 1803. ** , a 38-gun frigate built in 1805 and wrecked in 1811. ** HMS ''Pomone ...
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