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The term bongo may refer to:
Entertainment
- Bongo (Australian TV series), on air from August to November 1960
- Bongo Comics Group, a comic book publishing company
- Bongo (Dragon Ball) or Krillin, a character in Dragon Ball media
- Bongo (Indian TV series), an Indian television drama for children 2004
- Bongo, a character in the Matt Groening comic strip Life in Hell
- Bongo, a dog who played drums in the ITV children's series Animal Kwackers
- Bongo submarine, a fictional vehicle in the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- Bongo, the cartoon ape bouncer from the 1988 film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- "Little Bear Bongo", a 1930 short story for children by Sinclair Lewis
- Bongo, a segment of the 1947 Disney film Fun and Fancy Free, adapted from the Lewis story
Music
- Bongo drum, a percussion instrument made up of two small drums attached to each other
- "Bongo Bongo Bongo I Don't Want to Leave the Congo", an alternative name for the 1947 song "Civilization"
- "Bongo Bong", a single by Manu Chao from the 2000 album Clandestino
- Bongo Fury, a Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart album, 1975
- Bongo flava, a Tanzanian hip hop genre
- The Bongos, an America pop music band
- Music Man Bongo, a model of bass guitar
Places
- Bongo Country, the name of several places in Africa
- Bongo District, a district in the Upper East Region of Ghana
- Bongo, Ghana, town, capital of Bongo District
- Bongo (Ghana parliament constituency), in Bongo District
- Bongo Gewog, village in Chukha District, Bhutan
- Bongo (Grand-Bassam), Ivory Coast
- Bongo Island, island in the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
- Bongo Massif, mountain range in north-eastern Central African Republic
- Bôngo, alternative name for Bengal (eastern India and Bangladesh)
- Mbongo, Angola, in Huambo Province, Angola, known as Bongo
Sociology
- Bongo Bongo Land, a derogatory reference to Third World countries, particularly those in Africa
- Bongo-Bongo (linguistics), used as a name for an imaginary language
- Bongo people (Gabon), a forest people
- Bongo people (South Sudan), an ethnic group in Sudan
- Bongo–Bagirmi languages, the major branch of the Central Sudanic language family
- Bongo–Baka languages
- Bongo language, the language of the Bongo people of Sudan
- Bongo–Baka languages
Other uses
- Bongo (antelope), a species of forest antelope from Africa
- Bongo (name)
- Bongo Jeans/Bongo Apparel, a clothing brand that was acquired by the Iconix Brand Group in 1998
- Bongo (software), an open source mail and calendar project
- A tree, Cavanillesia platanifolia
- DK Bongos, a video game controller
- Kia Bongo, an automobile
- Mazda Bongo, a van
- Operation Bongo II, 1964 Oklahoma City sonic boom tests
- Um Bongo, a fruit drink marketed at children