Banga may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''Banga'' (album), a 2012 album by Patti Smith
* A song by Ali Shaheed Muhammad from the 2004 album ''
Shaheedullah and Stereotypes''
* The name of Pontius Pilate's dog in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel ''
The Master and Margarita
''The Master and Margarita'' () is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in ''Moscow (magazine), Moscow'' magazine in ...
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BANGA, a collective of Angolan architects
Food
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Banga (soup), a type of meat, fish and palm fruit soup from Southern Nigeria
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Agastache rugosa
''Agastache rugosa'', also known as wrinkled giant hyssop, Korean mint, purple giant hyssop, Indian mint and Chinese patchouli is an aromatic herb in the Lamiaceae, mint family, native to East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Russian Primorye, Taiwan, ...
'', a culinary herb known as banga in Korea
Places
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Banga, Aklan
Banga, officially the Municipality of Banga (Aklanon language, Aklanon: ''Banwa it Banga''; Hiligaynon language, Hiligaynon: ''Banwa sang Banga''; ), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Akla ...
, a municipality in the Philippines
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Banga, Angola, municipality in Angola
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Banga, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso
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Banga, Entebbe, Uganda
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Banga, India
Banga is a town and Municipal council in the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab, India. Banga is also one of the sub-division (tehsil) headquarters of the district. Banga is located on Phagwara-Rupnagar section of National Highwa ...
, a town and municipal council in India
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Banga Assembly Constituency
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Banga, Pakistan
Banga ( Punjabi and ) is a village of Faisalabad District (previously Lyallpur) in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 31°24'0N 73°18'0E at an altitude of 181 metres (597 feet). Banga Chak is 20 km from Faisalabad and same d ...
, a town in Punjab, Pakistan
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Banga, South Cotabato
Banga, officially the Municipality of Banga (; ; ; , Jawi: ايڠد نو باڠ), is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 89,164 people.
Banga is situated at the nor ...
, a municipality in the Philippines
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Vanga Kingdom
Vaṅga was an ancient kingdom and geopolitical division within the Ganges delta in the Indian subcontinent. The kingdom is one of the namesakes of the Bengal region. It was located in eastern and southern Bengal. Vanga features prominently in ...
(also known as the Banga Kingdom), an ancient name for the region of Bengal in India and Bangladesh
People
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Banga Sainis
Saini () is a farming and landowning caste of northern India. The community is given representation in government jobs and educational institutes as an Other Backward Class (OBC) in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan an ...
, a sub clan of Saini people
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Ajaypal Singh Banga
Ajaypal Singh "Ajay" Banga (born November 10, 1959) is an Indian American business executive. He is the president of the World Bank Group. He was the executive chairman of Mastercard, after having previously been president and chief executive off ...
, CEO of Mastercard
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Harindarpal Banga
Harindarpal Singh Banga, known as Harry Banga, is an Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The Caravel Group Limited.
According to Forbes, as at April 2022, Banga has a net worth of $2.8 billion and ...
, Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist
Other uses
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Banga (pottery)
''Tapáyan'' or ''tempayan'' (also known as ''balanga'', ''belanga'', or ''bangâ'') are large wide-mouthed earthenware or stoneware jars found in various Austronesian cultures in island Southeast Asia. Their various functions include fermenting ...
, large earthen jars made in the Philippines
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Banga language
Banga may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Banga (album), ''Banga'' (album), a 2012 album by Patti Smith
* A song by Ali Shaheed Muhammad from the 2004 album ''Shaheedullah and Stereotypes''
* The name of Pontius Pilate's dog in Mikhail Bulga ...
, a language of Nigeria
See also
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Banga, Punjab (disambiguation) Banga, Punjab may refer to:
* Banga, India in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar District, Punjab State
* Banga, Pakistan in Faisalabad District, Punjab Province
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Bangla (disambiguation)
Bangla () may refer to:
*Bengali language, an eastern Indo-Aryan language
*The endonym of Bengal, a geographical and ethno-linguistic region in South Asia
*''Bangla-'', a prefix indicating Bangladesh
*West Bengal, a state in eastern India, also kn ...
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Bengal (disambiguation)
Bengal is a region in South Asia.
Bengal or Bengals may also refer to:
Places South Asia
* Bengal Presidency, a large administrative division of the British Raj, precursor to the next three:
**Bangladesh, a country in modern South Asia
** Eas ...
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Vanga (disambiguation)
Vangas are a group of birds found in Madagascar and Comoros, usually classified as the family Vangidae (including a list of birds in the family).
Vanga may also refer to:
* Vanga, Kenya, a village in Msambweni Constituency on the coast near the ...
* Paschimbanga or
West Bengal
West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...
, a state in eastern India
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Bangabhumi
Bangabhumi (, meaning the land of Vanga, also spelt Bongobhumi) was an organization that aimed to create a Bengali Hindu country for Bangladeshi Hindus in southwestern Bangladesh by partitioning, envisioned by Banga Sena. Banga Sena () is a se ...
, a separatist movement in Bangladesh to create a Bengali Hindu country
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Bunga (disambiguation)
Bunga may refer to
* Bunga, Uttarakhand, a hill station in the state of Uttarakhand, India
* Bunga bunga, an erotic entertainment
* Bunga mas, a tribute sent to the king of Siam by vassal states in the Malay Peninsula
* Bunga River, northeaster ...
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Banka (disambiguation)
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Bangka (disambiguation)
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