Mina may refer to:

Places

Iran

Minaq Minaq ( fa, مينق, also Romanized as Mīnaq and Meynaq; also known as Meyna, Mīna, and Minar) is a village in Bedevostan-e Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Heris County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, off ...

, East Azerbaijan *

Mina, Fars Mina ( fa, مينا, also Romanized as Mīnā) is a village in Mahmeleh Rural District, Mahmeleh District, Khonj County Khonj County ( fa, شهرستان خنج) is in Fars province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republi ...

* Mineh, Lorestan Province * Mina, Razavi Khorasan *

Mehneh Mehneh ( fa, مهنه, also Romanized as Mahneh; also known as Maina and Mīnā) is a village in and the capital of Mahvelat-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Mahvelat County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 cens ...

, Razavi Khorasan Province

United States

* Mina, California *

Mina, Nevada Mina is a census-designated place in Mineral County in west-central Nevada, United States. It is located along U.S. Route 95 (38° 23' 25" N 118° 06' 30" W) at an elevation of . The 2010 population was 155. History Mina was founded as a railro ...

* Mina, New York *

Mina, Ohio Mina is an unincorporated community in Williams County, in the U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdict ...

* Mina, South Dakota

Ports

Al-Mina :'' Al Mina, Tyre is a spectacular and more familiar Roman site near Tyre.'' Al-Mina (Arabic: "the port") is the modern name given by Leonard Woolley to an ancient trading post on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, in the estuary of the ...

, a modern name given to an ancient coast settlement in Syria *

El Mina, Lebanon El-Mina or El Mina (Arabic: الميناء / ALA-LC: ''al-Mīnā’'', which means "the harbour"), is a coastal independent town in Tripoli, Northern Lebanon. El-Mina occupies the location of the old Phoenician city of Tripoli. It acts as the har ...

, the original site of the harbor of the Phoenician city of Tripoli

Elsewhere

Elmina Elmina, also known as Edina by the local Fante, is a town and the capital of the Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District on the south coast of Ghana in the Central Region, situated on a bay on the Atlantic Ocean, west of Cape Coast. Elmina wa ...

, Ghana, a modern town which grew around the first European settlement in sub-Saharan Africa * Mina 3, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina *

Mina, Burkina Faso Mina is a village in the Yaho Department of Balé Province in south-western Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by ...

, village in Balé Province, Burkina Faso *

Mina, Iloilo Mina, officially the Municipality of Mina ( hil, Banwa sang Mina, tgl, Bayan ng Mina), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 24,042 people. History Spanish c ...

, a municipality in Iloilo, Philippines *

Mina, Nuevo León Mina is town and municipality located in the Northwestern part of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. The population was 4,309 at the 2005 census. Its name honors Spaniard insurgent general Francisco Javier Mina, who fought for the M ...

, a municipality in Nuevo León, Mexico *

Mina, Saudi Arabia Mina ( ar, مِنَى, translit=Minā), also known as Muna ( ar, مُنَى, Munā), and commonly known as the "City of Tents" is a valley and neighborhood located in the Masha'er district in the Makkah Province of Saudi Arabia, southeast of the ...

Mina River (Indonesia) The Mina River (''Noel Mina'') is a river of Timor, in the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, about 2000 km east of the capital Jakarta. Above this river also stretches the Noelmina Bridge which connects Kupang with the South Centr ...

* Abu Dhabi Vegetable Market or Al Mina Fruit & Vegetable Market, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Languages

Hina language The Mina language, also known by the names Hina and Besleri, is a Chadic language spoken in Northern Cameroon by 10,000 people. Speakers of Mina are generally bilingual, with Fulfulde Fula ,Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s H ...

, a language of Cameroon *

Gen language Gen (also called Gɛ̃, Gɛn gbe, Gebe, Guin, Mina, Mina-Gen, and Popo) is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen is a tonal language. History The Gen-Mina originated from Ac ...

or Mina, the language of the Mina people in the southern Togo *

Mina (Louisiana) The Mina were a well-organized African-American community of people in Louisiana enslaved from the Bight of Benin The Bight of Benin or Bay of Benin is a bight in the Gulf of Guinea area on the western African coast that derives its name from t ...

, a language community in Louisiana

People

Mina (given name) Mina is a given name with a variety of origins, used as a feminine name in some cultures and a masculine name in others. Egypt Mina, Coptic Μήνης is a male given name for Egyptian Coptic Christians. Mina in the Coptic language (derived fr ...

, a given name (and list of people and characters with that name) *

Mina (surname) Mina is a surname. People bearing the name include: * Ara Mina, Filipina actress * Denise Mina, Scottish crime writer * Francisco Espoz y Mina, Spanish general, uncle of Francisco Javier Mina * Francisco Javier Mina, Spanish soldier who fought i ...

, a surname (and list of people with that name) *

Mina (Italian singer) Mina Anna Maria Mazzini (born 25 March 1940) or Mina Anna Quaini (for the Swiss civil registry), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian-Swiss singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian ...

(born 1940), Italian singer * ''Mena'', an alternate transliteration of

Meena Meena () is a sub-group of Bhils. They speak Meena language. They started adopting the Brahmin worship system. Its name is also transliterated as ''Meenanda'' or ''Mina''. Historians claim that they belong to the Matsya tribe. They got the st ...

, a tribe in the Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh regions of India *

Mina (German singer) Mina (born 4 October 1993) is a German pop musician who became famous because of a video at the online portal Myvideo which was watched by four million viewers. Biography Mina was born in Munich, where she attended a private school. When she ...

(born 1993), German pop musician * Mina (Japanese singer) (born 1997), member of South Korean girl group Twice *

Mina (voice actress) , known professionally as , is a Japanese voice actress from Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. She is affiliated with Production Ace. Career In 2006, she won the Animax public audition and made her debut as voice actress. She has a wide vocal ran ...

(born 1984), Japanese voice actress *

Kang Mi-na Kang Mi-na (; born December 4, 1999), known mononymously as Mina, is a South Korean singer, rapper and actress signed under Jellyfish Entertainment. She is best known for finishing ninth in Mnet's K-pop girl group survival show ''Produce 101'' ...

(born 1999), South Korean singer known sometimes as “Mina” *

Shim Mina Shim Mina (; born December 1, 1972), known simply as Mina (미나), is a South Korean singer and dancer. She rose to fame at the World Cup in 2002, eventually deciding to become a K-pop singer. On July 7, 2018, Mina married Ryu Philip, a mem ...

, South Korean singer performing as "Mina"

Fictional characters

* Mina (''Dragonlance''), a herald of the One God in ''Dragonlance'' * Mina, a Trial Captain in ''

Pokémon Sun and Moon and are 2016 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. They are the first installments in the seventh generation of the ''Pokémon'' video game series. First a ...

'' and '' Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' * Mina in ''

Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sōichirō Yamamoto. The series features the daily life of Takagi, who loves to tease her classmate Nishikata, and Nishikata's failed attempts to get back at her. In North America, the ...

Music

* ''Mina'' (1964 album) * ''Mina'' (1971 album) * ''Mina'' (1974 album) * Mina (drum), a Venezuelan drum

MINA

Montenegrin News Agency Montenegrin News Agency, or MINA, is a Montenegrin national news agency which was formed on March 11, 2002. It is based in Podgorica, the Capital City of Montenegro. Montenegrin News Agency's current executive director is Jaša Jovićević. It ha ...

, Montenegrin national news agency *

MINA (gene) Ribosomal oxygenase 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''RIOX2'' gene In biology, the word gene (from , ; "...Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word gene to describe the Mendelian units of heredity..." meaning ''generation'' or '' ...

, a gene which encodes RIOX2, formerly known as MYC-induced nuclear antigen * Apache MINA, Apache Software Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Application

Other uses

Mīna Mīna, or Meena, is a month in the Indian solar calendar. It corresponds to the zodiacal sign of Pisces, and overlaps with about the later half of March and about the early half of April in the Gregorian calendar. First day of the Meena month, cal ...

, a month in the Hindu calendar * Mina, a month in the

Darian calendar The Darian calendar is a proposed system of timekeeping designed to serve the needs of any possible future human settlers on the planet Mars. It was created by aerospace engineer, political scientist, and space jurist Thomas Gangale in 1985 and ...

Mina (unit) The mina (also mĕnē, Aramaic; ) is an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight, which was divided into 60 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, was also a unit of currency. History The word mina comes from the ancient Semitic root / 'to count', Akkad ...

, an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight and currency * ''Mina'' (TV series), a Korean drama * Mina (Mexico City Metrobús), a BRT station in Mexico City