Banda may refer to:

People

Banda (surname) Banda is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arts and entertainment *Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao (1907–1968), Indian stage actor *Lucius Banda (born 1970), Malawian musician and politician Military *Abdallah Banda (born 1963), Su ...

Banda Prakash Banda Prakash Mudiraj (born 1954) is an Indian politician who is currently Deputy Chairman of the Telangana Legislative Council from 12 February 2023. Also He is the Member of Telangana Legislative Council from 22 November 2021. Earlier he serve ...

(born 1954), Indian politician *

Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao (20 January 1907 – 3 December 1968) was an Indian actor known for his works in Telugu theatre, and Telugu cinema. He was a member of Kendriya Sangeet Natak Akademi from 1952 and Andhra Pradesh Sangeet Natak Akademi ...

(1907–1968), Indian actor * Banda Karthika Reddy (born 1977), Indian politician *

Banda Singh Bahadur Banda Singh Bahadur, born Lachman Dev (27 October 1670 – 9 June 1716), was a Sikh warrior and a Jathedar, general of the Khalsa Fauj, Khalsa Army. At age 15, he left home to become an Sannyasa, ascetic, and was given the name Madho Das Baira ...

(1670–1716), Sikh warrior

Places

Argentina

* Banda Department, a part of Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina

Canada

* Banda, Ontario, a settlement in Ontario

Ghana

Banda Ahenkro Banda Ahenkro is a town located in the west-northern of Bono region, Ghana, near the border of Ivory Coast. Its geography provided a home for numerous groups seeking shelter from across West Africa during the slave trade era. The original name ...

, a town in Banda District *

Banda District, Ghana Banda District is one of the twelve districts in Bono Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tain District on 17 February 2004; until the northern part of the district was split off to create Banda District on 28 J ...

, a district in the Bono Region *

Banda (Ghana parliament constituency) Banda is a List of Ghana Parliament constituencies, constituency of the Parliament of Ghana, parliament of Ghana, located in the Banda District, Ghana, Banda District in the Bono Region. Ahmed Ibrahim became first member of parliament for the con ...

, a constituency in the Bono Region

India

* Banda, East Godavari district, a village in Andhra Pradesh, India * Banda, Maharashtra, a small town in Maharashtra *

Banda, Uttar Pradesh Banda is a city and a municipal board in Banda district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Banda is divided among north, east, west and south Banda. Banda lies south of the Yamuna river in the Bundelkhand region. It is the administrative ...

, a city and district headquarters of Banda District, Uttar Pradesh * Banda District, India, a district in Uttar Pradesh * Banda (Lok Sabha constituency), Uttar Pradesh * Banda (Assembly constituency), a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly * Banda (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Madhya Pradesh *

Banda, Madhya Pradesh Banda(बंडा) is city and a Nagar panchayat in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh in India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-larges ...

, Town and Tehsil in Madhya Pradesh

Indonesia

Banda Aceh Banda Aceh (; , Jawi script, Jawi: ) is the capital and largest city in the province of Aceh, Indonesia. It is located on the island of Sumatra and has an elevation of 35 metres. The city covers an area of and had a population of 223,446 peopl ...

, a capital and largest city of Aceh province *

Banda Islands The Banda Islands () are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about south of Seram Island and about east of Java (island), Java, and constitute an administrative district (''kecamatan'') within the Central Maluku ...

, a group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea *

Banda Sea The Banda Sea (, , ) is one of four seas that surround the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, connected to the Pacific Ocean, but surrounded by hundreds of islands, including Timor, as well as the Halmahera Sea, Halmahera and Ceram Seas. It is about ...

, the sea of the South Moluccas, a part of the Pacific Ocean

Uganda

Banda, Uganda Banda is a hill that lies in Nakawa Division, within Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Banda also refers to the neighborhoods on the slopes of the hill and between Banda Hill and Kireka, extending all the way to the Kampala-Jinja Highway. The sout ...

, a hill and the neighbourhood on that hill, located in Nakawa Division, within the city of Kampala

Music

A Banda (Ah Bahn-da) "A Banda (Ah Bahn-da)" () is a composition by Chico Buarque that was first performed live in 1966 by Buarque and Nara Leão, during the II Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) Festival in TV Record's theater, São Paulo, winning the "Viola de Ouro" awa ...

", a composition by Chico Buarque *

Banda music Banda is a subgenre of regional Mexican music and type of ensemble in which Wind instrument, wind (mostly Brass instrument, brass) and Percussion instrument, percussion instruments are performed. The history of banda music in Mexico dates from t ...

, a form of Mexican music *

Banda (opera) In opera, a ''banda'' (Italian for ''band'') refers to a musical ensemble (normally of wind instruments) which is used in addition to the main orchestra and plays the music which is actually heard by the characters in the opera. A ''banda sul palco ...

, a musical ensemble which is used in addition to the main opera orchestra and plays the music which is actually heard by the characters in the opera

Other uses

Banda people __NOTOC__ The Banda people are an ethnic group of the Central African Republic. They are likewise found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, and South Sudan. They were severely affected by slave raids of the 19th century and slave tr ...

, an ethnic group of the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and Sudan *

Banda languages Banda is a family of Ubangian languages spoken by the Banda people of Central Africa. Banda languages are distributed in the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan. Languages Olson (1996) Olson (1996) classi ...

, a family of Ubangian languages of Central Africa *

Banda language (Maluku) Banda is an Austronesian language of the Central Maluku subgroup. Along with Kei, it is one of the two languages of the Kei Islands in the Indonesian province of Maluku. Originally, the Banda language was spoken on the Banda Islands T ...

, an Austronesian language of the Kei Islands, Indonesia *Banda machine, a brand of

spirit duplicator A spirit duplicator (also Rexograph and Ditto machine in North America, Banda machine and Fordigraph machine in the U.K. and Australia) is a printing method invented in 1923 by Wilhelm Ritzerfeld, which was used for most of the 20th century. Th ...

- a type of low-volume document copying machine *

Banda (state) Banda was a princely state centered in Banda, in modern-day Uttar Pradesh, India. It was disestablished due to its participation in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The former region controlled by Banda state had a population of 698,608 people in ...

, a former princely state in India *Banda, a large smoked fish in Chad *Banda, a caste of

adivasi The Adivasi (also transliterated as Adibasi) are heterogeneous tribal groups across the Indian subcontinent. The term is a recent invention from the 20th century and is now widely used as a self-designation by groups classified as Scheduled Tr ...

s in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand * Banda Deul, an 11th-century temple in Purulia district, West Bengal, India *

Banda Banda may refer to: People * Banda (surname) * Banda Prakash (born 1954), Indian politician * Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao (1907–1968), Indian actor * Banda Karthika Reddy (born 1977), Indian politician *Banda Singh Bahadur (1670–1716), Sikh ...

, a clan of the

Chewa people The Chewa are a Bantu ethnic group primarily found in Malawi and Zambia, with few populations in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The Chewa are closely related to people in surrounding regions such as the Tumbuka. As with the Nsenga and Tumbuka, a sm ...