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Tunga, Leyte Tunga (IPA: u'ŋaʔ, officially the Municipality of Tunga ( war, Bungto han Tunga; tl, Bayan ng Tunga), is a 6th class municipality in the province of Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 7,656 people. It i ...
, a municipality in the Philippines * Tunga River, a river in India * The Gaelic name for the village of
Tong, Lewis Tong (; gd, Tunga) is a village on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, northeast of the main town of Stornoway on the B895 road to Back and Tolsta. The population of the village is 527 ( 2001 census). Fishing forms part of the local economy. Hist ...
, in the Western Isles of Scotland * The Gaelic name for the village of Tongue, Highland, in the northwest of Scotland *
Tunga Spur Tunga Spur is a prominent rock spur extending from the Kirwan Escarpment just southwest of Gommen Valley, in Queen Maud Land Queen Maud Land ( no, Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent terr ...
, a rock formation in Antarctica *
Tunka Suka Tunka Suka (Aymara language, Aymara ''tunka'' ten, ''suka'' furrow, "ten furrows", hispanicized spelling ''Tunga Suca'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Cusco Region, Canas Province, Tupac Amaru District. Tun ...
or ''Tunga Suca'', a mountain in Peru *
Tálknafjörður Tálknafjörður () is a fjord located in southern Westfjords between Patreksfjörður and Bildudalur in Iceland. The term is also used for the immediate village and municipality. In January 2011, the municipality had 306 inhabitants, of whom 29 ...
, a town formerly called Tunga, in Iceland


People

* Alp Er Tunga, a mythical hero in Turkish literature *
Michy Batshuayi Michy Batshuayi-Atunga (born 2 October 1993) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the Belgium national team. Batshuayi began his professional career at Standard Liège in 2011, scorin ...
Tunga, footballer * Tunga (artist) (1952–2016), Brazilian sculptor and performance artist


Other uses

* ''Tunga'' (flea), a genus of burrowing fleas * ''Tunga rakau'' or ''tunga haere'', Maori names for
huhu beetle The huhu beetle (''Prionoplus reticularis'') is a longhorn beetle endemic to New Zealand. It is the heaviest beetle found in New Zealand. Māori name To Māori, the larval form is known as huhu (also tunga haere, tunga rākau) with the adult ...
larvae * Battle of Tunga, or
Battle of Lalsot The Battle of Lalsot was fought between the Rajputs of Jaipur State, Jaipur and Jodhpur against Marathas under Mahadji Scindia to collect taxes from the Rajput States. Mahadji as the Naib Vakil-i-Mutlaq of the Mughal Emperor, demanded Rs.63,00,00 ...
in India in 1787 {{Disambiguation, geo