Mon, MON or Mon. may refer to:

Places

* Mon State, a subdivision of Myanmar * Mon, India, a town in Nagaland *

Mon district Mon District (Pron:/mɒn/) is a district of Nagaland, a state in India. It is the third-largest district in Nagaland in terms of area. The district has a population of 250,260 people. Mon Town is the headquarters of the district. History Afte ...

, Nagaland * Mon, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India *

Mon, Switzerland Mon is a village and a former municipality in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Alvaschein, Mon, Stierva, Tiefencastel, Alvaneu, Brienz/Brinzauls and Surava merg ...

, a village in the Canton of Grisons *

Anglesey Anglesey (; cy, (Ynys) Môn ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms a principal area known as the Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island across the narrow Cymyran Strait and some islets and skerries. Anglesey island ...

, cy, Môn, links=no, an island and county of Wales * Møn, an island of Denmark *

Monongahela River The Monongahela River ( , )—often referred to locally as the Mon ()—is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 river on the Allegheny Plateau in north-cen ...

, US or "The Mon"

Peoples and languages

Mon people The Mon ( mnw, ဂကူမည်; my, မွန်လူမျိုး‌, ; th, มอญ, ) are an ethnic group who inhabit Lower Myanmar's Mon State, Kayin State, Kayah State, Tanintharyi Region, Bago Region, the Irrawaddy Delta, and se ...

, an ethnic group from Burma * Mon language, spoken in Burma and Thailand *

Mon–Khmer languages The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are t ...

, a large language family of Mainland Southeast Asia *

Mongolian language Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residen ...

(ISO 639 code), official language of Mongolia *

Alisa Mon Alisa Vladimirovna Mon (born 15 August 1964) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer who became popular in the late 1980s after performing the song "Plantain". The second wave of popularity was associated with her 1997 hit "Diamond". Early life Sh ...

, Russian singer

Other uses

* Mon (emblem), Japanese family heraldic symbols *

Mon (architecture) is a generic Japanese term for gate often used, either alone or as a suffix, in referring to the many gates used by Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and traditional-style buildings and castles. Significance Unlike gates of secular buildings, m ...

, gates at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and castles in Japan * Mon (boat), a traditional war canoe of the North Solomons *

Mon (currency) The was the currency of Japan from the Muromachi period in 1336 until the early Meiji period in 1870. It co-circulated with the new ''1 sen coin, sen'' until 1891. The Kanji for ''mon'' is and the character for currency was widely used in the C ...

, a currency used in Japan until 1870 * Môn FM, a radio station serving Anglesey, Wales * ''The Gate'' (novel) (), a 1910 novel by Natsume Sōseki *

.мон .мон is the internationalised (Cyrillic) internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mongolia. It is administered by .MN Registry, Datacom. The domain name is composed of the consonants in the three first letters of the country name. T ...

, Internet country code top-level domain for Mongolia

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Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...

(IOC country codes), Europe *

Member of the Order of the Niger Nigeria became an independent country on 1 October 1960 and in 1963 became the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The republic instituted two orders of merit: the Order of the Niger and the Order of the Federal Republic. Award The two highest honour ...

, national honour * Mixed oxides of nitrogen, chemical mixture * Monarch Airlines (IATA code), a British airline *

Monday Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 8601 standard, it is the first day of the week and in countries that adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is t ...

, abbreviated Mon. * Ministry of National Defence (Poland) () * Monmouthshire (historic) (Chapman code), a Welsh historic county * Monmouthshire (ISO 3166 code GB-MON), a Welsh local government area *

Monoceros Monoceros (Greek: Μονόκερως, "unicorn") is a faint constellation on the celestial equator. Its definition is attributed to the 17th-century Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius. It is bordered by Orion to the west, Gemini to the north, ...

, a constellation *

Monon Railroad The Monon Railroad , also known as the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway from 1897 to 1971, was an American railroad that operated almost entirely within the state of Indiana. The Monon was merged into the Louisville and Nashville Ra ...

(reporting mark), a former railroad in Indiana *

Monsanto The Monsanto Company () was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best known product is Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, developed in ...

, NYSE **

MON 810 The MON 810 corn is a genetically modified maize used around the world. It is a ''Zea mays'' line known as YieldGard from the company Monsanto.Van Rie J. et al. 1989. Specificity of Bacillius thuringiensis delta-endotoxins. Eur J Biochem 186: 239-2 ...

, a Monsanto genetically modified crop **

MON 863 MON 863 is a genetically engineered variety of maize produced by Monsanto. It is genetically altered to express a modified version of Cry3Bb1, a delta endotoxin which originates from '' Bacillus thuringiensis''. This protects the plant from corn ...

, a Monsanto genetically modified crop *

Motor octane number An octane rating, or octane number, is a standard measure of a fuel's ability to withstand compression in an internal combustion engine without detonating. The higher the octane number, the more compression the fuel can withstand before detonating ...

, an octane rating for petrol/gasoline *

Music On! TV , also known as , is a Japanese music cable television network operated by , a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Inc. (SMEJ). Its motto is We Believe in Music.

, M-On, a Japanese TV channel

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