Tunga may refer to:

Places

Tunga, Leyte Tunga (IPA: u'ŋaʔ, officially the Municipality of Tunga ( war, Bungto han Tunga; tl, Bayan ng Tunga), is a 6th class municipality in the province of Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 7,656 people. It i ...

, a municipality in the Philippines *

Tunga River The Tunga River (alternatively spelled Thunga) is a river in Karnataka state, southern India. The river is born in the Western Ghats on a hill known as ''Varaha Parvata'' at a place called '' Gangamoola''. From here, the river flows through two ...

, a river in India * The Gaelic name for the village of

Tong, Lewis Tong (; gd, Tunga) is a village on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, northeast of the main town of Stornoway on the B895 road to Back and Tolsta. The population of the village is 527 ( 2001 census). Fishing forms part of the local economy. History ...

, in the Western Isles of Scotland * The Gaelic name for the village of

Tongue, Highland Tongue ( gd, Tunga from non, Tunga) is a coastal village in northwest Highland, Scotland, in the western part of the former county of Sutherland. It lies on the east shore above the base of the Kyle of Tongue and north of the mountains Ben Hop ...

, in the northwest of Scotland *

Tunga Spur Tunga Spur is a prominent rock spur extending from the Kirwan Escarpment just southwest of Gommen Valley, in Queen Maud Land Queen Maud Land ( no, Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent terr ...

, a rock formation in Antarctica *

Tunka Suka Tunka Suka ( Aymara ''tunka'' ten, ''suka'' furrow, "ten furrows", hispanicized spelling ''Tunga Suca'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Cusco Region, Canas Province, Tupac Amaru District Tupac Ama ...

or ''Tunga Suca'', a mountain in Peru *

Tálknafjörður Tálknafjörður () is a fjord located in southern Westfjords between Patreksfjörður and Bildudalur in Iceland. The term is also used for the immediate village and municipality. In January 2011, the municipality had 306 inhabitants, of whom 2 ...

, a town formerly called Tunga, in Iceland

People

Alp Er Tunga Alp Er Tunga or Alp Er Tonğa (Alp "brave, hero, conqueror, warrior", Er "man, male, soldier, Tom", Tonğa "Siberian tiger") is a mythical Turkic hero who was mentioned in Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, Yusuf Balasaguni's Kutadgu Bi ...

, a mythical hero in Turkish literature *

Michy Batshuayi Michy Batshuayi-Atunga (born 2 October 1993) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the Belgium national team. Batshuayi began his professional career at Standard Liège in 2011, scor ...

Tunga, footballer *

Tunga (artist) Antonio José de Barros Carvalho e Mello Mourão (February 8, 1952 – June 6, 2016), known professionally as Tunga, was a Brazilian sculptor and performance artist. ''The Art Newspaper'' called him "One of Brazil's best-known contemporary artists ...

(1952–2016), Brazilian sculptor and performance artist

Other uses

* ''Tunga'' (flea), a genus of burrowing fleas * ''Tunga rakau'' or ''tunga haere'', Maori names for

huhu beetle The huhu beetle (''Prionoplus reticularis'') is a longhorn beetle endemic to New Zealand. It is the heaviest beetle found in New Zealand. Māori name To Māori, the larval form is known as huhu (also tunga haere, tunga rākau) with the ...

larvae * Battle of Tunga, or

Battle of Lalsot The Battle of Lalsot was fought between the Rajputs of Jaipur and Jodhpur against Marathas under Mahadji Scindia to collect taxes from the Rajput States. Mahadji as the Naib Vakil-i-Mutlaq of the Mughal Emperor, demanded Rs.63,00,000 from the Jai ...

in India in 1787 {{Disambiguation, geo