Kalinga may refer to:

Geography, linguistics and/or ethnology

Kalinga (historical region) Kalinga (Sanskrit: ), is a historical region of India. It is generally defined as the eastern coastal region between the Mahanadi and the Godavari rivers, although its boundaries have fluctuated with the territory of its rulers. The core terri ...

, a historical region of India **

Kalinga (Mahabharata) Kalinga is a kingdom described in the legendary Indian text ''Mahabharata''. They were a warrior clan who settled in and around the historical Kalinga region, present-day Odisha and northern parts of Andhra Pradesh. Kalinga clan warriors side ...

, an apocryphal kingdom mentioned in classical Indian literature ** Kalinga script, an ancient writing system invented in the ancient Kingdom of Kalinga **

Kalinga architecture The Kaḷinga architectural style is a style of Hindu architecture which flourished in the ancient Kalinga previously known as Utkal and in present eastern Indian state of Odisha. The style consists of three distinct types of temples: Rekha D ...

** Kalinga (caste), an Indian caste found between the districts of Ganjam and Vizagapatam **

Kalinga War The Kalinga War (ended )Le Huu Phuoc, Buddhist Architecture, Grafikol 2009, p.30 was fought in ancient India between the Maurya Empire under Ashoka and the state of Kalinga, an independent feudal kingdom located on the east coast, in the pre ...

, fought between the Maurya Empire under Ashoka and the state of Kalinga *

Kalinga people The Kalinga people () are an indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines. They are mainly found in Kalinga province which has an area of 3,282.58 sq. km. Some of them, howev ...

, an ethnic group in the Philippines **

Kalinga language Kalinga () is a dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Kalinga people, alongside Ilocano. The Banao Itneg variety is not one of the neighboring Itneg languages. Dialects Ronald Himes (1997) divides Kalinga into ...

, spoken in the Philippines **

Kalinga-Apayao Kalinga-Apayao () was a province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in the island of Luzon. It was formed, along with Benguet, Ifugao, and the new Mountain Province, from the earlier Mountain Province, with the passage o ...

, a former province in the Philippines **

Kalinga (province) ; tl, Lalawigan ng Kalinga) , native_name = , other_name = , settlement_type = , image_skyline = , image_caption = (from top: left to right) Bum-bag Rice Terraces, Pasil Valley, ...

, in the Philippines *

Kalinga, Queensland Kalinga is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kalinga had a population of 2,126 people. Geography Kalinga is bounded by Kedron Brook to the north. The Kedron Brook bikeway follows the brook on the suburb's nort ...

, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia **

Kalinga Park Kalinga Park is a heritage-listed park at 100 Bertha Street, Kalinga (formerly part of Wooloowin), City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The eastern section of the park is in neighbouring Clayfield. It is also known as Anzac Memorial Park. I ...

, a park in the same suburb *

Kalingga Kalingga ( jv, Karajan Kalingga; 訶陵 ''Hēlíng'' or 闍婆 ''She-pó / She-bó'' in Chinese sources) was a 6th-century Indianized kingdom on the north coast of Central Java, Indonesia. It was the earliest Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Central ...

, an ancient Indianized kingdom in Java

Musical instruments

* ''Kalinga'' or ''galinga'', a musical instrument known otherwise as the

ground bow The musical bow (bowstring or string bow, a subset of bar zithers) is a simple string instrument used by a number of South African peoples, which is also found in the Americas via slave trade. It consists of a flexible, usually wooden, stick 1. ...

*''Kalinga'', the sacred, dynastic drum of Rwanda, known elsewhere in Africa as

Ngoma drums Ngoma (also called engoma or ng'oma or ingoma) are musical instruments used by certain Bantu populations of Africa. ''Ngoma'' is derived from the Kongo word for "drum". Different Bantu-inhabited regions have their own traditions of percussion, wi ...

Others

* ''Kalinga'' (film), a 2006 Tamil-language film from India * ''Kalinga'' (gastropod), a genus of sea slugs *

Kalinga Airlines Kalinga Airlines was a private airline based in Calcutta, India. It was founded in 1947 by aviator and politician Biju Patnaik, who was also the airline's chief pilot. The airline was nationalised and merged into Indian Airlines in 1953. It resta ...

, a private airline based in Calcutta *

Kalinga Prize The Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an award given by UNESCO for exceptional skill in presenting scientific ideas to lay people. It was created in 1952, following a donation from Biju Patnaik, Founder President of the Kalinga ...

, a UNESCO prize awarded for the popularisation of science *

Kalinga Stadium The Kalinga Stadium is a multi-purpose International stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Its foundation stone was laid by former chief minister of Odisha Late Biju Patnaik in 1978. It is the home ground of the I League Club Indian Arrows si ...

, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India *

26214 Kalinga 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

, an asteroid * INS Kalinga, an Indian Navy establishment at Visakhapatnam {{disambiguation, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages