Ugu is a town in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Ugu or UGU may also refer to:
Places
*Ugu Island (''Ugu-shima''), a small islet in
Hakata Bay
is a bay in the northwestern part of Fukuoka city, on the Japanese island of Kyūshū. It faces the Tsushima Strait, and features beaches and a port, though parts of the bay have been reclaimed in the expansion of the city of Fukuoka. The ba ...
, Japan
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Mount Ugu,
a mountain in the Philippines
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Ugu District Municipality
The Ugu District Municipality () is one of the 11 districts of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. ''Ugu'' is isiZulu for "coast". It governs the KZN South Coast and its seat is Port Shepstone. The majority of its 722,484 inhabitants spok ...
, a district of KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
Food and culture
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Telfairia occidentalis
''Telfairia occidentalis'' is a tropical vine grown in West Africa as a leaf vegetable and for its edible seeds. Common names for the plant include fluted gourd, fluted pumpkin, ugu (in the Igbo language), "Eweroko" (in the Yoruba language),okwu ...
, an African leaf-vegetable
*Ugu, a week in the Balinese
Pawukon calendar
The Pawukon is a 210-day calendar that has its origins in the Hindu religion in Bali, Indonesia. The calendar consists of 10 different concurrent weeks of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 days. On the first day of the year it is the first day o ...
*Ugu, a Cherokee high-priest's title of the ancient
Kituwa
Kituwa (also spelled Kituwah, Keetoowah, Kittowa, Kitara and other similar variations) or ''giduhwa'' (Cherokee: ᎩᏚᏩ) is a Woodland period Native American settlement near the upper Tuckasegee River, and is claimed by the Cherokee people ...
settlement, North Carolina, United States
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Ugu the Shoemaker
Ugu is a town and a nagar panchayat in Unnao district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. First officially classified as a town for the 1981 census, Ugu is an old town with medieval ruins that hosts a biweekly market and an annual mela. It ...
, a fictional villain from the Oz books by L. Frank Baum
*, a catch phrase uttered by ''Kanon'' character
Ayu Tsukimiya
''Kanon'' is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key (company), Key, a brand of Visual Arts (company), Visual Arts. It was released on June 4, 1999, for Microsoft Windows, Windows as an Eroge, adult game. Key later released versions of ''Kanon' ...
Other uses
*UGU, a genetic codon sequence of
cysteine
Cysteine (; symbol Cys or C) is a semiessential proteinogenic amino acid with the chemical formula, formula . The thiol side chain in cysteine enables the formation of Disulfide, disulfide bonds, and often participates in enzymatic reactions as ...
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Upper Gneiss Unit
Upper may refer to:
* Shoe upper or ''vamp'', the part of a shoe on the top of the foot
* Stimulant, drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both
* ''Upper'', the original film title for the 2013 found fo ...
, a structural unit in geology (plate tectonics), see
Thiviers-Payzac Unit The Thiviers-Payzac Unit is a metasedimentary succession of late Neoproterozoic and Cambrian age outcropping in the southern Limousin (region), Limousin in France. The unit geology, geologically forms part of the Variscan orogeny, Variscan basement ...
*Zugapa Airport, Indonesia (IATA airport code: UGU)
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University of Glamorgan Union, Treforest, Wales
*University Graduates Union, the founding non-profit organization of the
Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, Palestine
See also
*
Ugwu (disambiguation)
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