Lu(u)nda or Ruund may refer to:

Places

* Lunda (Asia Minor), an Ancient Roman city and present Catholic titular see * Lunda, Färingsö parish, a locality in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden * Lunda, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Liberty Township, Union County, Ohio, United States * Lunda Sharif, a town in Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Africa

Kingdom of Lunda The Lunda Empire or Kingdom of Lunda was a confederation of states in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, north-eastern Angola, and north-western Zambia. Its central state was in Katanga Province, Katanga. Origin Initially, the core of ...

, a pre-colonial African confederation of states in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Zambia *

Lunda Norte Province Lunda Norte () is a province of Angola. It has an area of 103,760 km² and a population of 862,566. Angola's first President, Agostinho Neto, made Lucapa the provincial capital after independence, but the capital was later moved to Dundo. ...

, Angola *

Lunda Sul Province :''Lunda Sul Province is not to be confused with Luanda Sul, a satellite city of Luanda, the capital of Angola.'' Lunda Sul ("South Lunda") is a province of Angola. It has an area of 77,637 km2 and a 2014 census population of 537,587. Sau ...

, Angola *

Kasongo Lunda Kasongo Lunda is a town and the seat of Kasongo Lunda Territory, in the Kwango Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town lies near the border with Angola to the east, here defined by the Kwango River The Cuango or Kwango (; ; ) ...

, a town in Kwango District, Bandundu Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Mission sui iuris of Lunda, a Roman Catholic mission sui iuris (primary pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction) in Angola from 1900 to 1940

Ethnography

Lunda people The Lunda (''Balunda'', ''Luunda'', ''Ruund'') are a Bantu peoples, Bantu ethnic group that originated in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo along the Kalanyi River and formed the Kingdom of Lunda in the 17th century under their rule ...

, a group living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Zambia **

Eastern Lunda The Lunda people of the Luapula River valley in Zambia and DR Congo are called by others the ''Eastern Lunda'' to distinguish them from the 'western' Lunda people who remained in the heartland of the former Lunda Kingdom, but they themselves would ...

, a group living in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia **

Kanongesha-Lunda people The Kanongesha-Lunda (also called the ''Western Lunda'') are an ethnic group living mainly in the North-Western Province of Zambia under Senior Chief Kanongesha, around the provincial capital Mwinilunga. The Lunda people of North-Western Provinc ...

or Western Lunda, a group living mainly in the North-Western Province of Zambia *

Lunda languages The Lunda languages are a clade of Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu language, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southe ...

, a family of Bantu languages **

Lunda language Lunda, also known as Chilunda, is a Bantu language spoken in Zambia, Angola, and, to a lesser extent, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Lunda and its dialects are spoken and understood by perhaps 8.6% of Zambians (1986 estimate), an ...

, spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and Zambia **

Ruund language Ruund (Ruwund), also known as Northern Lunda or ''Uruund'', is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola. It is highly unusual among Bantu languages for allowing consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a ...

or Northern Lunda language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola **

Salampasu language Salampasu (Luntu) is a Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu language, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern, East Afr ...

, spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Other uses

Elena Lunda Elena Lunda (1896–unknown) was an Italian actress known for her work in silent films. She was the daughter of Vittorio Lunda Gondola ( Gundulić) from Ragusa/Dubrovnik and Celeste Grossi. She was married to actor Alfredo Bertone and appeared ...

(1901–1947), Italian actress * ''Lunda'', a proposed bird genus including the

tufted puffin The tufted puffin (''Fratercula cirrhata''), also known as crested puffin, is a relatively abundant medium-sized pelagic seabird in the auk family (Alcidae) found throughout the North Pacific Ocean. It is one of three species of puffin that make ...

* Lunda rope squirrel, a species of rodent found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola {{disambiguation, geo, surname