Pomona may refer to:
Places
Argentina
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Pomona, Río Negro
Pomona is a small village on the Choele Choel Island in the Avellaneda Department in the Río Negro Province, in Argentina. It was already a crossing point for the Negro River to the island in 1890, when it was known as ''Paso Peñalva'', on the ...
Australia
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Pomona, Queensland
Pomona is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Pomona had a population of 2,910 people. Pomona is located around 135 kilometres north of Brisbane. It is located at the base of Mount Co ...
, Australia, a town in the Shire of Noosa
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Pomona, New South Wales, Australia
Belize
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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
United Kingdom
* Pomona, an old name for the
Mainland
Mainland is defined as "relating to or forming the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it egardless of status under territorial jurisdiction by an entity" The term is often politically, economically and/or dem ...
of Orkney
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Pomona Docks, in Manchester, England
United States
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Pomona, California
Pomona is a city in Los Angeles County, California. Pomona is located in the Pomona Valley, between the Inland Empire and the San Gabriel Valley. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 151,713. The main campus of California State Polyte ...
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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
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Pomona, Maryland
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Pomona, Michigan
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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, ...
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Pomona, New Jersey
Pomona is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Galloway Township, in Atlantic County, New Jersey.[Pomona, New York
Pomona is a village partly in the town of Ramapo and partly in the town of Haverstraw in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of New Hempstead, east of Harriman State Park, north of Monsey and west of Mount Ivy. Acco ...]
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Pomona, Tennessee
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Pomona, Washington
Pomona is an unincorporated community in Yakima County, Washington, United States, located immediately northeast of Selah
(; hbo, סֶלָה, selā) is a word used 74 times in the Hebrew Bible. Its etymology and precise meaning are unknown, t ...
Academic institutions
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California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona, CPP, or Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in San Luis Obispo. See the '' name'' section of this article for more info ...
, a public polytechnic university
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Pomona College
Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became ...
, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California
Other uses
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Pomona (fruit survey)
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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, a treatise on or a survey of
fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering.
Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particu ...
varieties
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Pomona (mythology)
Pomona (, ) was a goddess of fruitful abundance in ancient Roman religion and myth. Her name comes from the Latin word ''pomum'', "fruit", specifically orchard fruit.
Pomona was said to be a wood nymph.
Etymology
The name ''Pōmōna'' is a ...
, the Roman goddess of fruit and nut trees
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''Pomona'' (opera), a German-language opera by Reinhard Keiser
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''Pomona'' (stage play), by Alistair McDowall
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Pomona station (disambiguation) Pomona station may refer to:
* Pomona railway station, a Citytrain station in Pomona, Queensland, Australia
* Pomona station (California)
Pomona station, also called Pomona–Downtown station, ( ) is a train station in Pomona, California, Unite ...
, train stations and tram stops
* ''Pomona'', a ballet with music by
Constant Lambert
Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 190521 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founder and music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in th ...
* "Pomona", a waltz by
Emile Waldteufel
Emil or Emile may refer to:
Literature
*''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life
*''Emil and the Detective ...
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Professor Pomona Sprout, a character from the ''Harry Potter'' series by J.K. Rowling
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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
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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 ...
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HMS ''Pomona'' (1778) a 28 gun British naval frigate
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''Pomona'' (sternwheeler) was an American river steamboat launched in 1898
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''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)
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