Kora

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Kora may refer to

Places

• Kora, Burkina Faso, a town
• Kora, Ethiopia, a town
• Kora, Katihar, a town in the India state of Bihar
• Korha (Vidhan Sabha constituency), a political constituency in Katihar, Bihar, India
• Kureh, Markazi, a village in Markazi Province, Iran, also known as Kora
• Kōra, Shiga, a town in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
• Kora, Mali, a village
• Kora National Park, Coast Province, Kenya

Music

• Kora (instrument), a stringed musical instrument of West African origin
• Kora Awards, music awards for African music
• Kora (band), a New Zealand reggae band
  • Kora (album), Kora album released in 2007

Buildings

• Kōra taisha, a Shinto shrine in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
• Kora Temple, a Masonic building in Lewiston, Maine

Languages

• Kora or Aka-Kora language, formerly spoken in the Andaman Islands, India
• !Kora or Korana language, spoken in South Africa

People

• Kora people, also Cora or Aka-Kora, an indigenous tribe of the Andaman Islands
• Kora of Sicyon (c. 650 B.C.), credited with the invention of modeling in relief
• Bil Aka Kora (born 1971), musician from Burkina Faso
• Kengo Kora (born 1987), Japanese actor
• Kora Karvouni (born 1980), Greek actress
• Olga Jackowska (born 1951), Polish singer and songwriter known as "Kora"

Other uses

• Kora class corvette, a type of ship used by the Indian Navy
  • INS Kora (P61), lead ship of the class
• Kora (pilgrimage), a type of pilgrimage in the Buddhist tradition
• Made in Japan: Kora!, a 2011 Japanese film directed by Banmei Takahashi
• KORA-FM, a radio station in Bryan, Texas

See also

• Kora-kora, a traditional canoe in the Moluccas, Indonesia
• Koras or Kurash or Köräş, a wrestling sport of Central Asia
• Ai Kora or Love&Collage, a manga series by Kazuoru Inoue
• Gravi-kora, a variant of gravikord, a kora-inspired electric harp by Robert Grawi
• Khora or Khôra, a Greek philosophical term
• Cora (disambiguation)