Mon

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Mon or Møn may refer to:

Places

  • Mon State, a subdivision of Burma
  • Mon, Nagaland, a town in India
  • Mon District, Nagaland, India
  • Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Grisons
  • Isle of Anglesey or Môn, an island and county of Wales
  • Møn, an island of Denmark
  • Monreale, a city in Sicily, Italy
  • The Monongahela River of North America

Peoples and languages

  • The Mon people of Southeast Asia
  • The Mon language (of the Mon people)
  • The Mon-Khmer languages, an Indochinese language family
  • The Monpa people, an ethnic group of Tibetan origin

Other

  • Mon (emblem), Japanese family heraldic symbols
  • Mon (architecture), gates at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, and castles in Japan
  • Mons veneris, the pubic mound
  • Monarch Airlines, IATA code for this UK airline
  • Mon Foundation, a mental health NGO
  • Japanese mon (currency), a currency used in Japan until 1870
  • The Gate (novel) (Mon ()), a 1910 novel by Natsume Sōseki
  • The Mon Calamari (race), fictional amphibious humanoids in Star Wars
  • Mon, a British Judo Association junior belt
  • "Mon" is also used in slang, usually either as a means of address (believed to be a replacement for the endearing term "man"), or as an abbreviation of "Come on" (e.g. "Mon the Biffy", a slogan used by rock band Biffy Clyro).

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