Costa

Costa may refer to:

• Costa (surname), including origin of the name and people sharing the surname
• Costa, scientific term, from Latin costa "rib" (plural costae)
  • In botany, the central strand of a bryophyte leaf or thallus
  • In entomology, the leading edge of the forewing in Lepidoptera and other winged insects in the Comstock-Needham system, as well as a part of the male clasper
  • In vertebrate antomy, a rib
• Costa!, a 2001 Dutch film from BNN
• Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Award, a literary award in the United Kingdom
• Costa Coffee, a British coffee shop chain, sponsor of the award
• Costa Cruises, a leading cruise company in Europe
• Costa's Garden Odyssey, an Australian television gardening program hosted by landscape architect Costa Grogiadis
• Costa-Gavras (born 1933), Greek-French filmmaker

Places

In general, "Costa" (or simila) is a common Romance toponym indicating a coastal location. Places named "Costa" without specifiers are:

• Costa, Haute-Corse, a commune on the island of Corsica
• Costa, Mozambique
• Costa, Orkney, a village on Orkney Mainland, Scotland
• Costa, Portugal, a parish in the Guimarães Municipality, Portugal
• Costa Head, a headland near the above Scottish village

See also

• Costas (disambiguation), a name of Greek origin
• Costal (disambiguation)