Tanga may refer to:

Places

Burkina Faso

* , a town in eastern Burkina Faso *

Tanga, Sidéradougou Tanga is a village in the Sidéradougou Department of Comoé Province in south-western Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bo ...

, a village in western Burkina Faso *

Tanga-Pela Tanga-Pela is a village in the Sabce Department of Bam Province in northern-central Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , borde ...

, a village in northern-central Burkina Faso

Other places

Tanga, Tanzania Tanga is both the name of the most northerly port city of Tanzania on the west of the Indian Ocean, and the capital of Tanga Region. It had a population of 273,332 in 2012. The name ''Tanga'' means "sail" in Swahili. The city of Tanga sits on t ...

, a city and port on the coast of Tanzania *

Tanga Airport Tanga Airport is a small domestic airport located in Tanga Region, Tanzania. The airport is based in the regional capital city of Tanga. It is west of the city, off the A14 trunk road. The airport has scheduled flights to Arusha, Dar es S ...

Tanga Region Tanga Region (''Mkoa wa Tanga'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Burundi. The regional capital is the mun ...

, Tanzanian administrative region named after the city *

Tanga District Tanga is one of eleven administrative districts of Tanga Region in Tanzania. The District covers an area of . Tanga district is bordered to the north by Mkinga District, to the east by the Indian Ocean, to the south and west by Muheza District. T ...

, Tanzanian district *

Tanga Islands The Tanga Islands are an island group in Papua New Guinea, located north-east of New Ireland and part of the Bismarck Archipelago. Tanga is made up of four main islands — Boang, Maledok, Lif and Tefa — and a number of smaller, uninhabited i ...

, an island group in Papua New Guinea * Tånga och Rögle, a village in southern Sweden

Money

* Tanga (coin), subunit of the Portuguese Indian rupia from the 16th-century until 1958 * Tanga (currency), subunit of the Tajikistani ruble from 1995 to 2000

Entertainment

* ''Tanga'' (film), a 1987 Brazilian comedy film * "Tangá", a 1943 pioneering Afro-Cuban jazz composition by

Mario Bauzá Prudencio Mario Bauzá Cárdenas (April 28, 1911 – July 11, 1993) was an Afro-Cuban jazz, Latin, and jazz musician. He was among the first to introduce Cuban music to the United States by bringing Cuban musical styles to the New York City jaz ...

Other

* 1595 Tanga, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1930, named after Tanga, Tanzania *

Battle of Tanga The Battle of Tanga, sometimes also known as the Battle of the Bees, was the unsuccessful attack by the British Indian Expeditionary Force "B" under Major General A. E. Aitken to capture German East Africa (the mainland portion of present-day T ...

, an unsuccessful British attack to capture the Tanzanian city and German East Africa during World War I *

Tanga (carriage) A tonga or tanga is a light carriage or curricle drawn by one horse (compare ekka (carriage), ekka) used for transportation in the Indian subcontinent. They have a canopy over the carriage with a single pair of large wheels. The passengers reach ...

or , a light horse-drawn carriage used in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh *

Tanga (clothing) The thong is a garment generally used as either underwear or in some countries, as a swimsuit. It may also be worn for traditional ceremonies or competitions. Viewed from the front, the thong typically resembles a bikini bottom, but at the b ...

, a minimal style of bikini, with triangular front and rear and elastic sides *

Tanga Cement Tanga Cement Public Limited Company is a cement manufacturing company in Tanzania. Its shares of stock are listed on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, where they trade under the symbol TCCL. Location The company maintains corporate offices at Co ...

, a cement company of Tanzania, named after the city *

Tanga language Tanga, or Noho, is a Bantu language of Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria ...

, a Bantu language of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea *

Tanga Station is a Kitakyushu monorail station in Kokura Kita ward, Kitakyushu, Japan. History The station opened on 9 January 1985. Station layout The elevated station has two side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a si ...