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Rao or RAO may refer to:
Geography
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Rao, West Sumatra, one of the districts of West Sumatra, Indonesia
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Råö, a locality in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden
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Rao Arrondissement in
Senegal
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Rao, Senegal, the seat of the arrondissement
Transport
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Dr. Leite Lopes–Ribeirão Preto State Airport
Dr. Leite Lopes State Airport is the airport serving Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
It is operated by Rede Voa.
History
Dr. Leite Lopes State Airport was opened on April 2, 1939, and soon after, in 1940, the runway was extended for the first time.
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, IATA code RAO, serving Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Fictional entities
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Rao (comics), a fictional star in the DC Universe; Superman's planet Krypton revolved around it
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Rao (''Greyhawk''), god of peace, reason, and serenity in ''Dungeons & Dragons: World of Greyhawk''
* ''Raō'', the Japanese name for
Raoh, a character in ''Fist of the North Star''
* Ramji Rao, a fictional character in Indian films including
''Ramji Rao Speaking'' (1989)
Mathematics
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Cramér–Rao bound, a statistical concept
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Rao–Blackwell theorem, a theorem in statistics
Science
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''Rao'' (insect), a genus of wasps in the subfamily Platygastrinae
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Recent African origin of modern humans (RAO), a paleoanthropological theory
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Recurrent airway obstruction (RAO), a respiratory disease in horses
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Response amplitude operator (RAO), a function relating a response to an input given the input frequency
Titles
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Rao (title), cognate Hindi variations of the (originally Hindu) title Raja(h)
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Rao Bahadur, a title of honour issued by the British in India
Other uses
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Rai (disambiguation)
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy), Ministry of Eco ...
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Ray (disambiguation)
Ray may refer to:
Fish
* Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea
* Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine on a fin
Science and mathematics
* Ray (geometry), half of a line proceeding from an initial point
* Ray (gra ...
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Rau (disambiguation)
Rau is a town in India.
Rau or RAU may also refer to:
Places
* The IOC code for the now defunct United Arab Republic (''République arabe unie'')
* Rau (Tanzanian ward), in the Moshi district of the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
* Rau (Vidhan Sa ...
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Rao (Indian surname)
Rao is a title and a surname native to India. It is used mostly in states of Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
As a surname
Notable people with this surname or title include the following:
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Rao (Chinese surname)
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Rao language
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Rao's, an Italian restaurant in New York City, USA named after its founder, Joshua Anthony Rao
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