Kochi
Kochi ( , ), List of renamed Indian cities and states#Kerala, formerly known as Cochin ( ), is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the Ernakulam district, district of Ernakulam in the ...
is a city in Kerala, India.
Kochi or Kōchi may also refer to:
People
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Kochi people, a predominantly Pashtun nomadic people of Afghanistan
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Arata Kochi
is a Japanese physician and public health expert, who is the former director of the World Health Organization's malaria program. He had previously been director of WHO's tuberculosis programs for ten years. While at WHO, Dr. Kochi became known fo ...
(born 1948 or 1949), Japanese physician and World Health Organization official
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Jun Kochi (born 1983), Japanese football goalkeeper in the Dhivehi Premier League, Maldives
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Kōchi Chōjō (1843–1891), aristocrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom
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Kōchi Ryōtoku (died 1798), bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom
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Jay Kochi (1927–2008), American organic chemist of Japanese descent
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Momoko Kochi (1932–1998), Japanese actress
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Mizuho Katayama (previously Mizuho Kōchi; born 1969), synchronized swimming coach in Japan
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Erica Kochi (born 1979), UNICEF official
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Kairi Kochi (born 1985), Japanese handball player
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Yugo Kochi (born 1994), Japanese singer
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Kochi Rani Mondal (), Bangladeshi Kabaddi player
Places
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Fort Kochi, one of the three main urban components which constitute the present day city of Kochi
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Kochi International Book Festival, an annual event conducted at the coastal city of Kochi
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Kochi metropolitan area
Kochi metropolitan area or Kochi urban agglomeration is a metropolitan area in the Ernakulam district of Kerala, India, comprising the Kochi Municipal Corporation, nine adjacent municipal councils, 15 gram panchayats and parts of four gram pa ...
, also known as Kochi Urban Agglomeration or Kochi UA
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Kōchi, Hiroshima, a former town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
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Kōchi (city), the capital city of Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
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Kōchi Castle, a castle located in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
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Kōchi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 669,516 (1 April 2023) and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2 (2,742 sq mi). Kōchi Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the northwest and Tok ...
, a prefecture in Japan
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Kōchi Ryōma Airport, also known as Kōchi Airport, a regional airport in Nankoku, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
* Kochi Sub-county of
Yumbe District, Uganda
** River Kochi at Kochi Sub-county of Yumbe, Uganda
Business
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Kochi Metro Rail, a mass transit system for the southern India city of Kochi
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Kochi Refineries
Kochi Refinery Limited (KRL) is a crude oil refinery in the city of Kochi in Kerala, India. It is the largest public sector refinery in India with a production capacity of 15.5 million tonnes per year. Formerly known as Cochin Refineries Limited ...
, a petroleum company in India
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Kochi Tuskers Kerala, a 2011 IPL cricket team, now defunct
Other
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2396 Kochi, an asteroid discovered in 1981
* Kochi, a name for the Rampuri dialect of
Mahasu Pahari
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Kochi font, a font development project by Yasuyuki Furukawa to build free replacements of proprietary fonts
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Kochi reaction, an organic reaction for the decarboxylation of carboxylic acids to alkyl halides
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Kochi (kuih), a Malay-style cake with coconut filling
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Kochi Fighting Dogs, a semi-professional baseball team in the Shikoku Island League of Japan
See also
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Cochin (disambiguation), former name of the city in India
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Kōchi Station (disambiguation)
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Kochi University (disambiguation)
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Japanese-language surnames