Wawa may refer to:

People

Waawa The Waawa clan of Northern Igboland, also referred to as ''Ndi Waawa, Wawa People'', are a unique sub-group of the Igbo people in Enugu and Ebonyi State, Nigeria, consisting of several communities, who all speak a unique dialect of Igbo calle ...

, an ethnic group of Nigeria

Given name or nickname

Wawa (Malagasy musician) Wawa is a performer and composer of salegy, a genre of music from the northern coastal region of Madagascar. He is among the most popular contemporary salegy artists and has recorded songs in collaboration with numerous other Malagasy artists. In ...

Wawa (Taiwanese singer) Jin Zhi-Juan (; born 4 October 1964) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, formerly known by the stage-name Wawa (娃娃 "Doll"). ^ 黃琬軒. 金智娟好聽帶你重溫美好年代. Upaper. 2007-08-23. ^ 袁世珮. 二王三后同台飆唱空前 ...

(born 1964) *

Wawa of Mataram Sri Maharaja Rakai Pangkaja Dyah Wawa Sri Wijayalokanamottungga, better known in Indonesia as Dyah Wawa, was a ruler of the Mataram Kingdom in Central Java, Indonesia (r. 924–929). What is known of him is mainly thanks to an inscription engr ...

, king of Mataram from 924 to 929 *

Vava (rapper) Mao Yanqi (; born 29 October 1995), professionally known as Vava, is a Chinese rapper and singer from Ya'an, Sichuan. Her English stage name Vava is a synonym for "doll" in Chinese (), chosen as she had a "baby face" when she was little. Childh ...

(born 1995), Chinese rapper *

Warren Barguil Warren Barguil (; born 28 October 1991) is a French cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is best known for winning two mountain stages and the Mountains classification in the Tour de France, mountains classification of the 2017 Tour de France ...

(born 1991), French racing cyclist * Harrison Chongo (1969–2011), Zambian footballer * Wawa Gatheru, American activist *

Warren Snipe Warren Snipe (born December 10, 1971), also known by stage name Wawa (also stylized in all caps), is an American deaf writer, rapper, actor and performer. He was featured in the R&B artist Maxwell's "Fingers Crossed" lyric video and has completed ...

(born 1971), American rapper *

Wawrzyniec Żuławski Wawrzyniec Jerzy Żuławski (14 February 1916, in Zakopane – 18 August 1957, in the Alps), also known as ''Wawa'', was a Polish alpinist, educator, composer, music critic, and musicologist. He was a professor of Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Muzyc ...

(1916–1957), Polish mountaineer, composer and writer

Surname

* Marie Wawa, Vanuatuan actress * Serge Wawa (born 1986), Ivorian footballer * Séry Wawa (1943–2013), Ivorian footballer

Places

Canada

Wawa, Ontario Wawa is a township (Canada), township in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario in the Algoma District. Formerly known as the Township of Michipicoten, named after a Michipicoten River, nearby river of that name, th ...

, a township *

Wawa Lake Wawa Lake is a lake located in northeastern Ontario, Canada in the Algoma District, near the town of Wawa. See also *List of lakes in Ontario This is an incomplete list of lakes in Ontario, a province of Canada. There are over 250,000 lakes in O ...

, Ontario

Nicaragua

* Wawa River (Nicaragua)

Philippines

* Wawa Dam, Rizal Province

Barangays

Wawa, Pilar, Bataan Pilar, officially the Municipality of Pilar (), is a municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 46,239 people. Etymology The town was named in the honor of the image of the Our Lady ...

* Del Remedio, San Pablo, Laguna * Wawa, in

Abra de Ilog Abra de Ilog, officially the Municipality of Abra de Ilog (), is a municipality in the province of , Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 35,176 people. Abra de Ilog is classified as partially urban. It is from Ma ...

, Occidental Mindoro * Wawa, in

Orani Orani, officially the Municipality of Orani (), is a municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 70,342 people. Folk etymology According to legend, while a Spaniard was exploring a ...

, Bataan

Rivers

Wawa River (Agusan del Sur) The Wawa River (; ) is a river located in Caraga, in northeastern Mindanao, the southern Philippines, Philippine island. Its headwaters traverse the municipalities of Sibagat, Bayugan, and Esperanza, Agusan del Sur, Esperanza (all within the pro ...

, a tributary of the Agusan River * Wawa River, a tributary of the

Marikina River The Marikina River () is a waterway in eastern Metro Manila, Philippines. It is the largest tributary of the Pasig River, with headwaters in the Sierra Madre Mountains in what was known as Montalban, presently the municipality of Rodriguez, R ...

Sudan

Wawa, Sudan Wawa () is a town in northern Sudan near the Nile River, located at 20°26′N 30°21′E. The town sits directly across the Nile River from the ancient city of Soleb Soleb is an ancient town in Nubia, in present-day Sudan. The site is locate ...

, a town

Togo

Wawa Prefecture Wawa is a Prefectures of Togo, prefecture located in the Plateaux Region (Togo), Plateaux Region of Togo. The prefecture covers 1,209 km2, with a population in 2022 of 101,300. The prefecture seat is located in Badou. Cantons of Togo, Cantons ...

United States

Wawa, Pennsylvania Wawa is an unincorporated community located in Delaware County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania in Greater Philadelphia, partially in Middletown Township and partially in Chester Heights Borough.Mayer, Cynthia. "Pay A Visit To Wawa, The P ...

, an unincorporated community

Callsigns

WAWA (AM) WAWA was a radio station licensed to West Allis, Wisconsin, serving the Milwaukee area, located at 1590 AM. Its studio and transmitter were located in Elm Grove. For the station's entire existence, WAWA was the sister station to WAWA-FM (l ...

, a defunct radio station serving Milwaukee, Wisconsin *

WAWA-TV WPXA-TV (channel 14) is a television station licensed to Rome, Georgia, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Atlanta area. The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, and ...

, now WPXA-TV, serving Rome, Georgia * WAWA-FM, now

WLUM-FM WLUM-FM (102.1 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio, commercial FM radio, FM radio station in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The station airs an alternative rock radio format branded as "FM 102/1". The station is owned by the estate of former Gr ...

, serving Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Languages

Wawa language Wawa is a Mambiloid language spoken in a region of Cameroon and just inside bordering Nigeria used by about 3,000 people in three main dialects.Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen, "Documenting Wawa – a Mambiloid language in the Cameroon-Niger ...

, a language of Cameroon *

Chinook Wawa Chinook Jargon (' or ', also known simply as ''Chinook'' or ''Jargon'') is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest. It spread during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to other areas in moder ...

, a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest

Transport

* Wawa Airport, near Wawa, Ontario, Canada *

Wawa Station Wawa Station is a commuter rail station on the SEPTA Regional Rail Media/Wawa Line, located adjacent to U.S. Route 1 in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The original station was built by the West Chester and Philadelphia Ra ...

, a SEPTA station in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania

Other uses

Wawa (company) Wawa, Inc. ( ) is an American chain of convenience stores and gas stations originating in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and located along the East Coast of the United States, operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virgin ...

, an American convenience store chain * ''

Kamloops Wawa The ''Kamloops Wawa'' (Chinook Jargon: , "Talk of Kamloops") was a newspaper published by Father Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, superior of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada, beginning May 25, 1891, and continui ...

'', a Canadian newspaper * ''

Triplochiton scleroxylon ''Triplochiton scleroxylon'' is a tree of the genus '' Triplochiton'' of the family ''Malvaceae''. The timber is known by the common names African whitewood, abachi, obeche (in Nigeria), wawa (in Ghana), ayous (in Cameroon) and sambawawa (in Ivor ...

'', a tree *

Water Authority of Western Australia The Water Authority of Western Australia, also known as WAWA, was a statutory authority of the Government of Western Australia, state government that was responsible for the water supply, sewerage, and main drainage within Western Australia betwe ...

Wawa Hotel The Wawa Hotel was a large summer resort hotel located at Norway Point on Lake of Bays (Muskoka lake), Lake of Bays, in Ontario, Canada. Constructed in 1908, it was entirely destroyed by a fire on August 19, 1923. The name "Wawa" is a native Can ...

, a former resort hotel in Ontario, Canada *

Wawa Pictures Wawa Pictures () is an independent station, independent television production company based in Singapore. It has produced dramas such as ''Three Wishes (Singaporean TV series), Three Wishes'' (2014), ''Crescendo (TV series), Crescendo'' (2015), ...

, a Singaporean production company * "Wawa," a song performed by

Lizzy Mercier Descloux Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux (16 December 1956 – 20 April 2004) was a French musician, singer-songwriter, and composer. Early life Mercier Descloux grew up in Lyon, France, but returned to her native Paris in her teens to attend art scho ...

* Wawa subprovince of the

Algoman orogeny The Algoman orogeny, known as the Kenoran orogeny in Canada, was an episode of mountain-building (orogeny) during the Late Archean Eon that involved repeated episodes of continental collisions, compressions and subductions. The Superior provinc ...