Mina or MINA may refer to:

Places

Iran

Minaq Minaq () is a village in Bedevostan-e Sharqi Rural District of the Central District (Heris County), Central District in Heris County, East Azerbaijan province, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 Na ...

, East Azerbaijan * Mina, Fars *

Mineh Mineh () is a village in Shurab Rural District of Veysian District, Chegeni County, Lorestan province, Iran. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 429 in 81 households, when it was in K ...

, Lorestan Province *

Mina, Razavi Khorasan Mina (, also Romanized as Mīnā; also known as Mīnā Qal‘eh) is a village in Qara Bashlu Rural District, Chapeshlu District, Dargaz County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 176, in 42 families. Reference ...

* Mehneh, Razavi Khorasan Province

United States

Mina, Nevada Mina is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mineral County, Nevada, Mineral County in west-central Nevada, United States. It is located along U.S. Route 95 in Nevada, U.S. Route 95 (3 ...

Mina, New York Mina is a town in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 1,004 at the 2020 census. It is at the western county border and state line. The town is best known as a summer resort area, centered on the hamlet of Findley Lake. ...

* Mina, Ohio * Mina, South Dakota

Ports

Al-Mina Al-Mina (Arabic: "the port") is the modern name given by Leonard Woolley to an ancient trading post on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast of northern Syria (region), Syria, at the mouth of the Orontes River. It is now located in Hatay pr ...

, a modern name given to an ancient coast settlement in Syria *

El Mina, Lebanon El-Mina or El Mina (Arabic: الميناء / ALA-LC: ''al-Mīnā’'', which means "the harbour"), is the coastal side and harbor of Tripoli, Northern Lebanon. El-Mina occupies the coastal location of the old Phoenician city of Tripolis. It is L ...

, the original site of the harbor of the Phoenician city of Tripoli

Elsewhere

Elmina Elmina ( Fante: ''Edina'') is a town and the capital of the Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District on the south coast of Ghana in the Central Region. It is situated on a bay on the Atlantic Ocean, west of Cape Coast.Straight line distances ...

, Ghana, a modern town which grew around the first European settlement in sub-Saharan Africa * Mina 3, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina * Mina, Burkina Faso, village in Balé Province, Burkina Faso *

Mina, Iloilo Mina, officially the Municipality of Mina (; , ), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 24,000 people. History Spanish colonization (1521–1898) Prior to 1870, ...

, a municipality in Iloilo, Philippines *

Mina, Nuevo León Mina is a town and municipalities of Nuevo León, municipality located in the Northwestern part of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. The population was 4,309 at the 2005 census. Its name honors Spaniard insurgent general Francisco J ...

, a municipality in Nuevo León, Mexico *

Mina, Saudi Arabia Mina (), nicknamed the "City of the Tents," is a valley located southeast of the city of Mecca, in the district of Masha'er, Mecca Province, Province of Makkah in the Hejazi region Saudi Arabia. Covering an area of approximately , Mina incorpora ...

Mina River (Indonesia) The Mina River (''Noel Mina'') is a river of Timor, in the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, about 2000 km east of the capital Jakarta. Above this river also stretches the Noelmina Bridge which connects Kupang with the South Cen ...

* Abu Dhabi Vegetable Market or Al Mina Fruit & Vegetable Market, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Languages

Hina language The Mina language, also known by the names Hina and Besleri, is a Chadic language spoken in Northern Cameroon by 10,000 people. Speakers of Mina are generally bilingual, with Fulfulde (Fula) being the second language. Fulfulde is often joined b ...

, a language of Cameroon *

Gen language Gen (also called Gɛ̃, Gɛn gbe, Gebe, Guin, Mina, Mina-Gen, and Popo) is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen is a tonal language. It was misidentified as the 'Arda' langua ...

or Mina, the language of the Mina people in the southern Togo *

Mina (Louisiana) The Mina were a community of well-organized, enslaved Black people in Louisiana who spoke a common language, most likely a dialect of Ewe that may have been related to Fon. The Mina Though some historians include the Mina with enslaved Africans ...

, a language community in Louisiana

People

Mina (given name) Mina is a given name with a variety of origins. Egypt Mina, Meina () is a male given name for Egyptian Coptic Christians. Mina in the Coptic language (derived from ancient Egyptian language) means: a person who is steadfast, committed, unrelent ...

, a given name (and list of people and characters with that name) *

Mina (surname) Mina is a surname. People bearing the name include: * Ara Mina, Filipina actress * Denise Mina, Scottish crime writer * Francisco Espoz y Mina, Spanish general, uncle of Francisco Javier Mina * Francisco Javier Mina, Spanish soldier who fought ...

, a surname (and list of people with that name) *

Mina (Italian singer) Mina Anna Mazzini (born 25 March 1940) or Mina Anna Quaini (for the Swiss civil registry), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from ...

(born 1940), Italian singer *

Mina (German singer) Mina (born 4 October 1993) is a German pop musician who became famous because of a video at the online portal MyVideo which was watched by four million viewers. Biography Mina was born in Munich, where she attended a private school. When she ...

(born 1993), German pop musician *

Mina (Japanese singer) Mina Myoi (; born Mina Sharon Myoi, March 24, 1997), known mononymously as Mina (; ), is a Japanese singer and dancer based in South Korea. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Twice, which debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2015, an ...

(born 1997), member of South Korean girl group Twice *

Mina (voice actress) , known professionally as , is a Japanese Voice acting in Japan, voice actress from Gifu, Gifu, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. She is affiliated with Production Ace. Career In 2006, she won the Animax public audition and made her debut as voic ...

(born 1984), Japanese voice actress * ''Mina'', an alternate transliteration of

Meena Meena () is a tribe from northern and western India which is sometimes considered a sub-group of the Bhil community. It used to be claimed they speak Mina language, a Spurious languages, spurious language. Its name is also transliterated as ' ...

, a tribe in the Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh regions of India

Music

* ''Mina'' (1964 album) * ''Mina'' (1971 album) * '' Mina®'', the 1974 album * Mina (drum), a Venezuelan drum

Other uses

Apache MINA Apache MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications) is an open source Java network application framework. MINA can be used to create scalable, high performance network applications. MINA provides unified APIs for various transports ...

, Apache Software Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Application * Mīna, a month in the Hindu calendar * Mina, a month in the

Darian calendar The Darian calendar is a proposed system of timekeeping designed to serve the needs of any possible future human settlers on the planet Mars. It was created by aerospace engineer, political scientist, and space jurist Thomas Gangale in 1985 and n ...

* MINA (gene), a gene which encodes RIOX2, formerly known as MYC-induced nuclear antigen *

Mina (Sikhism) The Mīnās (Gurmukhi: ਮੀਣਾ; ''mīṇā'') were a heretical Sects of Sikhism, sect of Sikhs that followed Prithi Chand (1558–April 1618), the eldest son of Guru Ram Das, after his younger brother Guru Arjan was selected by the Guru to s ...

, a Sikh sect *

Mina (unit) The mina (; ; ; ; ; ; ) is an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight for silver or gold, equivalent to approximately , which was divided into 60 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, eventually also became a unit of currency. History Sumerian Fro ...

, an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight and currency * ''Mina'' (TV series), a Korean drama * Mina (Mexico City Metrobús), a BRT station in Mexico City *

Mobile Innovation Network and Association Mobile may refer to: Places * Mobile, Alabama, a U.S. port city * Mobile County, Alabama * Mobile, Arizona, a small town near Phoenix, U.S. * Mobile, Newfoundland and Labrador Arts, entertainment, and media Music Groups and labels * Mobile (b ...

, an Australian organisation that runs the MINA festival *

Montenegrin News Agency Montenegrin News Agency, or MINA, is a Montenegrin national news agency which was formed on March 11, 2002. It is based in Podgorica, the Capital City of Montenegro. Montenegrin News Agency's current executive director is Jaša Jovićević. It has ...

(MINA), Montenegrin national news agency