Mongo
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Mongo may refer to subjects within the following categories:
[edit] Geographic
- Africa
- Mongo, Chad, a city
- Mongo people, one of the largest ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Mongo language, the language of the Mongo people
- North America
- Mongo, Indiana, a small town in the United States
[edit] People
- Mongo Santamaria, a Cuban jazz percussionist
- Steve McMichael ("Mongo" McMichael), a former American football player and professional wrestler
- Fictional
- Mongo (Blazing Saddles), the dim-witted "enforcer" sent to kill the sheriff in the 1974 comedy film Blazing Saddles by Mel Brooks; the role was played by Alex Karras
- Mongo the Magnificent, a fictional private investigator with dwarfism
- Magic Mongo, a fictional genie featured in segments of the Saturday morning TV program The Krofft Supershow
[edit] Other uses
- Mongo (planet), a fictional planet from the Flash Gordon series
- Möngö, a Mongolian monetary unit, where 100 Möngö equal 1 Mongolian tögrög
- Stomatepia mongo, a critically endangered species of cichlid (fish)
- Mongo Ika and Uzusho Mongo, Japanese cuttlefish sushi
- The Mongo (graphics program), an interactive graphics program distributed under the GNU General Public License
- A variant of mondo, meaning "to a great degree, extremely, very"
- A variant of mong, a derogatory shortening of Mongoloid
- Mongo, a style of skateboarding, where one uses one's leading foot to push
- Monggo, a commonly used name in the Philippines for mung beans