Ambo may refer to:

Places

Ambo, Kiribati South Tarawa () is the capital and hub of the Republic of Kiribati and home to more than half of Kiribati's population. The South Tarawa population centre consists of all the small islets from Betio in the west to Bonriki and Tanaea in the nor ...

* Ambō (also spelled Anbō), Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan * Ambo Province, Huanuco Region, Peru **

Ambo District Ambo District is one of eight Districts of Peru, districts of the Ambo Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is P'aqla Tanka at approximately . Other mountains are listed below:escale.minedu.gob.pe/ UGEL map Ambo ...

Ambo, Peru Ambo () is a town in central Peru. Ambo is the capital of the province Ambo in the region Huánuco. It was the birthplace of Bishop Ricardo Durand Flórez, third Bishop of Callao Callao () is a Peruvian seaside city and Regions of Peru, re ...

, capital of Ambo District *

Ambo, Ethiopia Ambo (, ) is a town in west-central Ethiopia. Located in the West Shewa Zone of Oromia Region, west of Addis Ababa, it is the capital city of West Shewa zone. This town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2,101 meters. Ambo i ...

, a capital of West Shewa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia *

Kom Ombo Kom Ombo (; Coptic: or ; Ancient Greek: or ; or and ) is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo. It was originally an Egyptian city called Nubt, meaning City of Gold (not to be confused with the city north of ...

or , a town in Egypt known for its ancient Greek temple *

Wendens Ambo Wendens Ambo is a village in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The population at the 2011 census was measured at 473. Its name originates from the merging of two originally separate villages called Wenden Magna (or Great Wenden) and ...

, village in Essex, England

Religion

Ambo (liturgy) The ambon or ambo (, meaning "pulpit"; Slavonic: ''amvón'') in its modern usage is a projection coming out from the soleas (the walkway in front of the iconostasis) in an Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic church. The am ...

or ambon, in Eastern orthodoxy the elevated area in front of the Iconostasis * Ambo, a

pulpit A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church. The origin of the word is the Latin ''pulpitum'' (platform or staging). The traditional pulpit is raised well above the surrounding floor for audibility and visibility, accesse ...

or lectern in a church sanctuary (the official term for Catholic pulpits)

Anthropology

Ovambo language The Ovambo () language is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga. The native name for the language is ''Oshiwambo'' (also written ''Oshi ...

, or Ambo language *

Ovambo people The Ovambo people (), also called Aawambo, Ambo, Aawambo (Ndonga, Nghandjera, Kwambi, Kwaluudhi, Kolonghadhi, Mbalantu, mbadja), or Ovawambo (Kwanyama), are a Bantu peoples, Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa, primarily modern Namibia. ...

, or Ambo people

Arts, entertainment, and media

* "Ambo", an episode of the American television series ''Animal Kingdom'' * Ambo, a music project of computer game designer

Robyn Miller Robyn Charles Miller (born August 6, 1966) is an American video game designer who is the co-founder of Cyan Worlds with brother Rand Miller. He served as co-designer of the popular computer game ''Myst'', which held the title of best-selling co ...

Other uses

* Typhoon Ambo (disambiguation) * Ambo, in Australia, a term for an

ambulance An ambulance is a medically-equipped vehicle used to transport patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport. Ambulances are used to respond to ...

* Ambo, a variety of

potato The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'', a perennial in the nightshade famil ...

* Ambo, an operation in

Conway polyhedron notation In geometry and topology, Conway polyhedron notation, invented by John Horton Conway and promoted by George W. Hart, is used to describe polyhedra based on a seed polyhedron modified by various prefix operations. Conway and Hart extended the i ...

* Ambo Declaration, adopted at the Tarawa Climate Change Conference in November 2010 * Ambo Mineral Water or ''Ambo wuha'', a carbonated bottled mineral water from the town of Ambo, Ethiopia * AMBO pipeline, a planned oil pipeline to be built and operated by the US-registered Albanian Macedonian Bulgarian Oil Corporation {{Disambiguation, geo