Kota or KOTA may refer to:

Places

India

Kota, Rajasthan Kota (), previously known as ''Kotah'', is the List of cities and towns in Rajasthan, third-largest city of the western Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located about south of the state capital, Jaipur, on the banks of Chambal River. As of 20 ...

, a city in Rajasthan state **

Kota district Kota District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The city of Kota is the administrative headquarters of the district. During the period around 12th century AD, Rao Deva, a Hada Chieftain conquered the territory and fou ...

, a district of Rajasthan state **

Kota (Lok Sabha constituency) Kota Lok Sabha constituency () is one of the 25 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Rajasthan state in India. Assembly segments Presently, Kota Lok Sabha constituency comprises eight Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. There a ...

, a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency of Rajasthan ** Kota State, an Indian princely state * Kota, Nellore district, mandal headquarters in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh * Kota mandal, Andhra Pradesh, mandal in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh * Kota, Bilaspur, a city in Chhattisgarh * Kota, Karnataka, an area in Karnataka state * Kota, Uttar Pradesh, a town in Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh

Brunei

* Kota Batu, Brunei-Muara, a sub-district of Brunei-Muara District

Indonesia

Administrative division Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divi ...

usually translated as "city", above district (''kecamatan''), below province, equivalent to regency (''kabupaten'') * Kota Tua Jakarta, an old area in Jakarta * Kotagede, a district in Yogyakarta

Japan

Kōta, Aichi is a town located in Nukata District, Aichi Prefecture, in the Tōkai region of Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 42,200 in 16,198 households, and a population density of 744 persons per km2. The total area of the town was . Par ...

, a town in Aichi Prefecture

Malaysia

* Kota, Negeri Sembilan, a small town in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan *

Kota Bharu Kota Bharu ( Kelantanese: ''Koto Baghu''), colloquially referred to as KB, is a town in Malaysia that serves as the state capital and royal seat of Kelantan. It is situated in the northeastern part of Peninsular Malaysia and lies near the mout ...

, the capital of Kelantan *

Kota Kinabalu Kota Kinabalu (; formerly known as Jesselton), colloquially referred to as KK, is the state capital of Sabah, Malaysia. It is also the capital of the Kota Kinabalu District as well as the West Coast Division of Sabah. The city is located on the ...

, the capital of Sabah

Nepal

Kota, Tanahun Kota is a village development committee in Tanahu District in the Gandaki Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. ...

* Kot, Bhojpur

Philippines

* Kota Island

People and languages

* Kōta (given name), a masculine Japanese given name *

Kota Brahmin Kota Brahmins are a Hindu Brahmin subcaste mainly from the Indian state of Karnataka. Kota Brahmins take their name from their native village Kota, Karnataka, Kota. They speak a Kannada dialect different from the other regional dialects. Kota ...

, a sub-caste of Brahmins in Karnataka *

Kota people (India) Kotas, also Kothar or Kov by self-designation, are an ethnic group who are indigenous to the Nilgiri Mountains range in Tamil Nadu, India. They are one of the many tribal people indigenous to the region. (Others are the Todas, Irulas and Ku ...

, a tribe in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu, South India **

Kota language (India) Kota is a language of the Dravidian languages, Dravidian family with about 900 native speakers in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu state, India. It is spoken mainly by the tribal Kota people (India). In the late 1800s, the native speaking populati ...

, a Dravidian language spoken in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu *

Kota people (Gabon) The Bakota (or Kota) are a Bantu peoples, Bantu ethnic group from the northeastern region of Gabon and Republic of the Congo, Congo. The language they speak is called iKota, but is sometimes referred to as Bakota, ikuta, Kota, and among the Beti ...

(Bakota) whose members live primarily in the northeastern region of Gabon in Central Africa **

Kota language (Gabon) Kota, or ''iKota'', is a Bantu language spoken by the Bakota people. It is spoken in northeastern Gabon, Ogooué-Ivindo Province and in some areas of Republic of Congo. According to ''Ethnologue ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' is ...

, a Bantu language of the Bakota people of Gabon *

Kota language (Central African Republic) Ngando is a Bantu language spoken by about 5,000 people in the Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to Central African Republic–Chad border, the nort ...

(Ngando), a Bantu language of the Central African Republic *

Kota Vamsa Kota Vamsa was a medieval dynasty which ruled in parts of the modern-day Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The Kotas belonged to Dhananjaya gotra. Kota chiefs ruled Kammanadu with Dharanikota as capital. Kota Kings belonged to the Shudra ...

, 12th century dynasty of Amaravathi, India

Media

KOTA (AM) KOTA (1380 kHz, "NewsRadio 1380 KOTA") is an AM radio station licensed to serve Rapid City, South Dakota. The station is owned by Riverfront Broadcasting, LLC. It airs a news/ talk radio format. The station was assigned these call letters ...

, a radio station (1380 AM) licensed to serve Rapid City, South Dakota, United States *

KOTA-TV KOTA-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with American Broadcasting Company, ABC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside MeTV affiliate KHME (channel 23) and low-power broadcasting#Televisi ...

, a television station (channel 7, virtual 3) licensed to serve Rapid City, South Dakota *

KHME KHME (channel 23) is a television station in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with the classic television network MeTV. It is owned by Gray Media alongside American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate KOTA-TV (channel 3) and L ...

, a television station (channel 2, virtual 23) licensed to serve Rapid City, South Dakota, which held the call sign KOTA-TV until 2016

Other uses

Kota the Friend Avery Marcel Joshua Jones (born October 16, 1992), known by his stage name Kota The Friend (Stylized as ''KOTA The Friend''), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He got his stage ...

, a Brooklyn-based independent

rapper Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing, or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and ommonlystreet vernacular". It is usually performed over a backing ...

* Association of Timorese Heroes, (''Klibur Oan Timor Asu’wain'', KOTA) a conservative political party in East Timor *

Kota Srinivasa Rao Kota Srinivasa Rao (born 10 July 1942) is an Indian character actor known for his work primarily in Telugu cinema and Telugu theatre. He has also starred in a few films in Tamil cinema, Tamil, Hindi cinema, Hindi, Kannada cinema, Kannada and Ma ...

(born 1947), Tollywood actor *

Kota Junction railway station Kota Junction railway station is major railway junction on the West Central railway network of India which serves Kota in Rajasthan. It is the headquarters of Kota railway division of West Central Railway zone. Background Kota is an important ...

, Kota, Rajasthan * Kota the triceratops, an animatronic toy *Kota, or

goahti A goahti (Northern Sámi), goahte (Lule Sámi), gåhte (Pite Sámi), gåhtie (Ume Sámi) or gåetie (Southern Sámi), (also ''gábma''), (Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''gamme'', Finnish language, Finnish: ''kota'', Swedish language, Swedish: ...

, a native Saami (Lapp) tent, similar to a tipi *

, the medieval dynasty which ruled in parts of the modern day Indian state of Andhra Pradesh * Bunny chow or kota, a South African fast food dish * Spatlo or kota, a South African sandwich