Cork

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Cork may refer to:

In places:

• Cork, Ireland includes
  • Cork (city), a city in the Republic of Ireland
  • County Cork, the largest and southernmost county in Ireland
  • Cork Harbour, a natural harbour and estuary
  • Cork International Airport, just outside the Irish city
  • Metropolitan Cork

In objects:

• Cork (material), a material used for bottle stoppers and noteboards
• Cork is often used to refer to a stopper (plug)

In botany:

• Cork Oak (Quercus suber) is a species of tree
• Chinese Cork Oak (Quercus variabilis) is a species of tree
• Cork-tree, Phellodendron is a genus of plants native to east and north-east Asia
• Cork cambium, a tissue found in woody plants

In sports:

• Cork City F.C., a football (soccer) club
• Cork GAA Gaelic athletic association

In people:

• Bruce Cork (died 1994), American physicist
• Dominic Cork (born 1971), English cricketer

In other:

• Cork encoding or T1 Character encoding
• Corky is a female orca living in captivity
• Cork taint, a condition when wine is spoilt by a chemical reaction
• Diocese of Cork and Ross (Roman Catholic) formed in the 1950s from two older diocese

See also:

• Corke, surname