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Ethnic groups

Karo people (Ethiopia) Karo (also Cherre, Kere, Kerre, Kara) is a South Omotic languages, Omotic language spoken in the Debub Omo Zone, Debub (South) Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in Ethiopia. Karo is described as being closely ...

, an ethnic group from Ethiopia *

Karo people (Indonesia) The Karo (also known as Karo Batak) people are a people of the ''Tanah Karo'' (Karo lands) in North Sumatera, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The Karo lands consist of Karo Regency, plus neighboring areas in East Aceh Regency, Langkat Regency, Dairi Re ...

, the indigenous people of the Karo Plateau in North Sumatra

Languages

Karo language (Brazil) Ramarama, also known as Karo, is a Tupian language of Brazil. Unusually for the indigenous languages of South America in general and Tupian in particular, Ramarama is a fairly analytic language, with limited affixation and a strict SOV word or ...

, a Tupian language *

Karo language (Ethiopia) Karo (also Cherre, Kere, Kerre, Kara) is a South Omotic language spoken in the Debub (South) Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in Ethiopia. Karo is described as being closely related to its neighbor, Hamer-B ...

, an Omotic language * Karo language (Nilotic), a Nilotic language of Uganda, South Sudan and the DRC *

Batak Karo language Karo, referred to in Indonesia as Bahasa Karo (Karo language), is an Austronesian language that is spoken by the Karo people of Indonesia. It is used by around 600,000 people in North Sumatra. It is mainly spoken in Karo Regency, southern parts ...

, an Austronesian language of Sumatra, Indonesia * The Kalo dialect of the Austronesian Keapara language of Papua New Guinea * The Karo dialect of the Papuan

Rawa language Rawa (Erawa, Erewa, Raua) is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. The two dialects, Rawa and Karo, are on opposite sides of the Finisterre Range The Finisterre Range is a mountain range in north-eastern Papua New Guinea. The hig ...

of Papua New Guinea

People

Karo (name) Karo is an Armenian given name, a shortened version of the Armenian given name Karapet (Eastern Armenian) / Garabed (Western Armenian). The Western Armenian variant of Karo is Garo. Given name * Karo Ghafadaryan (1907–1976), Soviet Armenian ar ...

, a list of people with the given name or surname

Other uses

Karo Regency Karo Regency is a landlocked regency of North Sumatra Province of Indonesia, situated in the Barisan Mountains. The regency, which was established on 7 November 1956, covers an area of and according to the 2010 census it had a population of 350 ...

, a regency of North Sumatra, Indonesia * KARO (98.7 FM) a radio station of Oregon, the United States *

Karō were top-ranking samurai officials and advisors in service to the ''daimyōs'' of feudal Japan. Overview In the Edo period, the policy of ''sankin-kōtai'' (alternate attendance) required each ''daimyō'' to place a ''karō'' in Edo and anothe ...

, samurai officials and advisers of feudal Japan * Karo-kari, term for honor killing in Pakistan *

Karo syrup Corn syrup is a food syrup that is made from the starch of corn/maize and contains varying amounts of sugars: glucose, maltose and higher oligosaccharides, depending on the grade. Corn syrup is used in foods to soften texture, add volume, preven ...

, a US brand of corn syrup *

Karo (tree) ''Pittosporum crassifolium'', karo, stiffleaf cheesewood, kaikaro or kihiki is a relatively fast-growing large shrub or small tree with an erect, fastigiate Habit (biology), growth habit. It is endemic to New Zealand. This species is self-sup ...

, small tree or shrub native to New Zealand, aka ''Pittosporum crassifolium'' * ''

United States v. Karo ''United States v. Karo'', 468 U.S. 705 (1984), was a United States Supreme Court decision related to the Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure. It held that use of an electronic beeper device to monitor a can of ethe ...

'', 468 U.S. 705 (1984), a Supreme Court decision related to the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search and seizure * ''Karo'' (film), a 1937 Armenian-language Soviet adventure-war film * Protagonist of ''

My Queen Karo ''My Queen Karo'' is a 2009 drama film. It was directed by Dorothée Van Den Berghe, produced by Frank Van Passel, and starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Déborah François, and Anna Franziska Jaeger. The film tells the story of Karo, a ten-year-old ...

'', a 2009 Belgian film *

Karo (cigarette) Karo (official spelling: ''KARO'') was a German brand of filterless cigarettes, owned and manufactured by Altria (previously by Philip Morris International). Karo is the German word for "diamond" (a suit of cards). History Karo was originally lau ...

, a German brand of filterless cigarettes *

Eucalyptus brassiana ''Eucalyptus brassiana'', commonly known as Cape York gum, gum-topped peppermint or as karo in PNG is a small to medium-sized tree that is native to northern Queensland and PNG. It has rough, hard, fissured bark on the trunk and smooth greyish b ...

, known as the Karo tree in Papua New Guinea

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